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It’s not only teachers that cheat. Turns out that Sumo wrestlers try to game the system as well. You see, a Sumo wrestling tournament involves 15 bouts, and a wrestler must win a majority to avoid dropping in the rankings. It doesn’t materially affect him whether he wins 14 matches or eight—just that he emerges with a better-than-even winning percentage. Knowing this, Levitt looked at the last matches in tournaments—when a wrestler with a 13-1 record going into the final round was matched with...
...plated two runs to draw even at four, but no sense of urgency had taken hold in the Crimson dugout. The atmosphere at O’Donnell Field still more closely resembled that of a pre-season exhibition among non-conference opponents than a post-season tune up between tournament-bound league champions...
Which is problematic, given the Crimson’s relatively lengthy break between the Ivy Championship Series—wrapped up on May 9—and its as-yet-unscheduled early June appearance in the NCAA tournament. Few other conferences have crowned their champions thus far, so Harvard’s opponent is likely still competing for its own league title against premier competition while the Crimson (27-15) and a handful of other entrants are scrambling to arrange additional games to maintain their playoff edge...
...took an entire afternoon of grueling play, but the Harvard women’s tennis team (18-6) finally dispatched Maryland (11-12) in the first round of the NCAA tournament Friday at the Beren Tennis Center, ensuring that there would not be a early playoff letdown this season...
Durkin had not lost a doubles match since before the Ivy season, but she was able to keep her focus playing in her first NCAA tournament and bear down when the team needed the deciding fourth point...