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...YALE (5-0, 2-0)With every passing week, by running every week, Yale looks more and more primed to finish the season undefeated. Mike McLeod broke his school single-game rushing record for the second straight time last Saturday, taking 40 handoffs against a tough Lehigh defense for—wait for it—276 yards. With 10-0 on the horizon and a 2,000-yard campaign not out of the question, McLeod can be considered a top contender for the Walter Payton Award annually bestowed upon the top player in Division I-AA.It speaks to how impressive...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Families Unite in Historic Weekend | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

Clutch hitting, superb defense, sharp pitching, a buccaneering spirit and more luck than any team deserves have lifted the Rockies from obscure awfulness to America's best-kept baseball secret. "It's a dream come true," first baseman Todd Helton wrote on his blog. "It's tough to put into words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mile-High Momentum | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...them earthbound. And the solution to the performance problem was to get better baseball players, but on the cheap. Thus, the new Monfort doctrine: No more free agents; more investment in the farm system. Yet the franchise continued to sink, and fans grew more vocal. The Monforts' defensive reply: Tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mile-High Momentum | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...Yeah. That'd be tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A conversation between author Cormac McCarthy and the Coen Brothers, about the new movie No Country for Old Men | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...Clinton moving back in to the White House can inspire such a degree of mercenary desertion in our country’s chaste crusaders. Granted, she has long served as the anathema of the American right, but in substance she’s just as pro-choice, just as tough on guns, and perhaps less Orwellian a presence than Giuliani. Both of these frontrunners have shrunk away from adopting any novel idea in favor of the senseless and discouraging groupthink we euphemize as “electability,” and both have profited mightily. America shall...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: For Thirty Pieces of Silver | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

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