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...eyesight is failing from degenerative tunnel vision, and the case has taken a bizarre twist: fresh traces of the dead woman's blood have turned up under a new victim's nails. Blauner, winner of the 1992 Edgar for Best First Novel, has written a taut psychological thriller with a pair of conflicted but compelling antagonists and a surprise ending you'll never see coming...
...leadership of seniors like captain Erik Grimm was invaluable. The more experienced players on the team kept the Crimson from collpasing in down-to-the-wire games, as Harvard came from behind to upset eventual Ivy champion Brown in double overtime and capped its season with a triple-overtime thriller at the Yale Bowl to win the 122nd edition of The Game.CROUCHING CRIMSON Senior Melissa Anderson and classmate Eva Wang led Harvard to another undefeated Ivy season and a berth in the NCAA Tournament in 2006. Wang went 7-0 at No. 1 singles for the Crimson in Ivy play...
...that weekend, that’s kind of all you thought about, going out on top, having a big victory like that, going out on top over Yale.”Few thought that Harvard’s earlier extra-frame triumph of 2005, a double-overtime thriller over eventual champion Brown in the team’s home-opener at Harvard Stadium, could be topped in terms of excitement. The Game, after all, is much more than its name suggests. It’s an event, one that starts before and ends after the game itself.But this year...
...Noah Savage’s baseline jumper with less than a second to play. The impossible victory moved to the top of the long list of Princeton’s tormenting wins over Harvard in recent years, including 2004’s double-overtime thriller and the 2001 game won by guard Kyle Wente’s desperate heave at the buzzer. “Heartbreaking, for sure,” said Crimson coach Frank Sullivan following this year’s loss. “Not only the most heartbreaking loss of the season, but in a while...
...showed us how we had to mentally block out everyone cheering against [us],” Fast said. So against Yale, it wasn’t the fans who made the difference for the defending champs. Instead, five Harvard wins—including Lorentzen’s five-game thriller over two-time defending Individuals champion Michelle Quibell—sent the Bulldogs to their first loss in almost three years. “You hear the crowd—it’s obviously there—but you just have to shut it out,” Lorentzen...