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After three weeks off, the Harvard men’s tennis team bounced back into action this weekend at the 2007 Wilson/ITA Northeast Regional Men’s Tennis Championships, advancing two players into the quarterfinals, which will be played today. The tournament, which was held indoors at Princeton’s Jadwin Gymnasium, started on Friday and will end with the championship matches tomorrow. Six members of the Crimson traveled to Princeton to compete in the 96-man singles main draw and two doubles pairs competed in the 42-pair doubles tournament. The top 32 seeds in singles received...
...five players carding better than 80. Sophomore Peter Singh led Harvard on Day 1 with a round of 80. Sophomores Greg Shuman and Nick Moseley each recorded opening-round scores of 82. Captain Michael Shore and freshman Louis Amira shot 84 and 85, respectively. “The tournament did not go as hoped,” Shore said. “We saw some improvement on the second day, and it was pretty indicative of the fall season in that I feel that we underachieved.” Thanks to Friday’s heavy rains at the Saucon...
...whether England or South Africa walks away with the coveted Webb Ellis trophy. But the big winner of the 2007 Rugby World Cup has been the game itself. Never before has rugby drawn so wide a global audience as it has done over the past six weeks of the tournament, and never has it been seen to be played by people of such diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Forget the stereotypes: Rugby's getting popular...
...Although it's unlikely ever to challenge soccer as the "world game," the interest and excitement the tournament has generated has marked the emergence of rugby's world cup as a major big-money sporting event. It drew an estimated 2.7 million spectators into stadiums, and a TV audience - accumulated over the entire tournament, including Saturday's final - of nearly 4 billion, an increase of nearly 25% over the 2003 event held in Australia. Although that forecasted total is dwarfed by the soccer World Cup, which drew a total TV audience of 30 million people, rugby's tally certainly rivals...
...with South Africa's Natal Sharks; while the rapid rise of Argentina as a real contender has been due in large part the experience gained by 90% of its squad while playing pro rugby in either Ireland, England, or France. Their location poses a dilemma over in which annual tournament to include the Pumas - in the Tri-Nations tourney with fellow southern hemisphere teams South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia, or Europe's annual Six Nations tournament, which is, after all, closer to where the Argentine players now make their homes...