Word: timers
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...probably the weirdest organized sport you've never heard of. Dubbed sport stacking, this rapid-fire competition could at first glance be mistaken for some peculiar carnival game. Players are tasked with arranging 12 lightweight plastic cups into various formations; a stacking kit comes with a touch-pad timer and cups that have a trio of holes in the bottom to reduce air resistance. At slower speeds, it seems easy enough: build up pyramids and break them down in a predetermined sequence. But as the game has become increasingly popular--some 15,000 schools and recreation centers worldwide have bought...
...April 18 for the World Sport Stacking Association (WSSA) Championships, where Purugganan will be competing alongside another up-and-cupping celebrity: 14-year-old Luke Myers, who can be seen stacking in a TV ad urging kids to eat more eggs. (The kicker? The ding! of an egg timer, of course...
...remains a must-attend event for theater professionals across the country. Even with a troubled economy, attendance this year was up over last year. And if the selection of new plays was creatively a mixed bag, for this first-timer it was a stimulating weekend. No breakout hits (like last year's festival favorite, Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, which moved on to an acclaimed off-Broadway run), but plenty of signs of vitality, flashes of brilliance, displays of theatrical invention. The flaws and missteps are part of the experience: you want to get involved, tinker, help with the discovery...
...know a female senior at Harvard who didn’t know how many “holes” a woman had until this year (and that’s a serious hole in one’s general education). After talking for about half an hour, a timer buzzed on the test and my counselor smiled. “Negative!” he announced, and I thanked him, standing up to leave...
...confidence in our defense; we just didn’t play our A game today,” Harvard coach John Tillman said. Facing its largest deficit of the season, the Crimson’s offense came alive. Vaughn assisted senior midfielder Nick Sapia on a one-timer from the right wing, and freshman attacker Jeff Cohen found Gibbons 15 yards in front of the net for a ripped shot past Schneider. Schneider, however, was not to be beaten again. Again and again, whenever Harvard threatened, the Minuteman goalie stymied its attack. “We ran into a goalie...