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Despite a long and public courtship, the deal fell apart and the Yankees swept in at the 11th hour and were able to pry Rodriguez away from the Rangers in exchange for second baseman Alfonso Soriano...
Harvard stormed Howard immediately, earning several quality scoring chances in the first minutes of play. Senior Brendan Bernakevitch mustered a shot that bounced between Maine’s netminder and the line, then sat precariously, a foot from the promised land, before Howard alertly swept it away with his stick...
This lack of debatable issues can be chalked up more to the campaign’s conduct than to the realities of council politics: Issues that ought to legitimately have been discussed were swept under the carpet, such as the question of the council’s funding the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) because of the group’s violation of council non-discrimination rules in its constitution (which requires officers to be Christians). Only Glazer-Capp actively supported the HRCF’s losing its council grants. Despite the issue’s fundamental importance to student...
...year’s worth of unfulfilled expectations had given way to an effortlessly brilliant postseason run, one which, it then seemed, not even No. 1 Maine was capable of stopping. Notching four goals in just 40 minutes, the Crimson had swept aside the nation’s top goaltender—Jimmy Howard, who had started the day with a 1.05 goals-against average—and staked itself to what appeared to be an insurmountable three-goal lead...
...field events, Hinson took home first in the shot put while Harvard swept the weight throw with a one-two-three punch of junior James Rhodes and sophomores James Ayers and Matt Niemczak. Rhodes’ winning throw registered at 15.62 meters, and was a personal best...