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...With the game knotted up 56-56, Rosen faked and drove to the hoop to draw a foul from Lin. Rosen hit both shots and on the other side, his counterpart, freshman guard Oliver McNally had a tough jumper barely rim out, which Penn forward Cameron Lewis tied up for a jump-ball with the possession arrow to his team...
...After a time out, the Quakers ran a perfect play as soon after the ball was passed in, Rosen found a wide-open Eggleston for an easy dunk and a 60-56 lead with 1:07. Tough defense on the other end gave the Crimson no chance to score until Lin found Miller for a lay-up with 38.4 seconds to play...
...story of the game was defense—or lack thereof. Coming into the game, Princeton had only mustered sixty points in five of its 14 games. In scoring 77, the squad eclipsed its season average by leaps and bounds. “They hit some tough shots, it wasn’t a lack of effort,” Housman said. “We need to improve on our communication, they confused us.” But the game was still undecided with seven minutes to play, as Harvard took its last lead...
...felt good about that,” said Hatch who opened the 2008 season as LSU’s starting signal caller, only months after the team had taken home a national championship. His season was eventually cut short by injuries. “I got a couple of tough injuries and as things evolved I realized that Harvard was best for my future,” Hatch said. Murphy said that he was “certainly happy” to have Hatch back, but denied having anything to do with his former player’s decision...
...helicopter crashes and how to prevent them. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which has sole power to regulate helicopter flight, and the Association of Air Medical Services, the industry's main trade group, maintain that most accidents have nothing in common, making it difficult for the FAA to impose tough safety rules. "Each accident has a different set of facts that leads up to it," says Peggy Gilligan, the FAA's top safety official. "The data supports that if standards are being met, these operations can fly safely." (Read a first-person story on riding in an EMS helicopter...