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...Winning the gold medal has been my dream forever," Ross Powers was saying after leading an American sweep of the Olympic halfpipe competition. Forever is a pretty short interval for snowboarders, since the event was only run once before. To 19- and 20-year-olds like Danny Kass and J.J. Thomas, the silver and bronze medalists, forever is the time it takes before your Big Mac arrives...
...American sweep came a day after Kelly Clark took gold in the women's halfpipe, and offered rousing recognition that the X-Games generation had spray painted its ambition on the Olympics in neon colors. The X crowd is showing up on the tube, too. NBC's ratings for the 18-to-34 year old group, which deserted the network in Sydney, shot up 31% over the last winter games. "One of the most important lessons to be learned from Sydney was that we had to get back a fair share of the lost 18-34 year olds," said...
...sweep at Princeton was due in large part to Harvard’s mediocre play, but Bookman credited the Tigers with playing a flawless match...
...other two Harvard wrestlers to sweep their weekend matches were co-captains Kevin El-Hayek and Dawid Rechul, the NCAA’s No. 12 ranked heavyweight...
Riding momentum from its six-game winning streak, the Crimson (15-5, 6-1 Ivy) is sitting at the top of the Ivy League after unseating Cornell in last weekend’s sweep over the Big Red and the Lions...