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Despite wild scores, Harvard battled its way into a third-place tie, shooting a 622 over the course of the tournament. Penn took the title by tallying 612 strokes, Princeton came in second at 617, and George Washington matched the Crimson’s score for third...
...tournament was hosted by a red-hot Bulldog squad that had won its last two matches, including last week’s Princeton Invitational, where it edged Harvard on a tiebreaker. This time around, Yale dropped to fifth place where, along with the Big Red, it scored...
...This tournament, we did something that I don’t believe we’ve done all season,” Grillo said. “We were forced to drop one score from our top two players in each round, which, given how we’ve been [performing] all season, is the opposite of how we’ve been playing...
...trophy to the new soccer world champion at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, as a billion sets of eyes and ears from every corner of the globe are glued to television screens and radios. The international sports media will call it the final day of a tournament that represents South Africa’s modernism and rapid, inspirational distancing from its torrential past of racial and economic inequalities. They will only be half right...
Opponents argue, with some success, that the efforts surrounding the World Cup will have long-term benefits for the poor. The tournament will create an estimated 415,000 jobs, and although there have been complaints, and even strikes, over low wages, it is undeniable that those jobs hold immeasurable value in a nation with unemployment hovering around 25 percent Although South Africa will experience short-term losses from the World Cup, it is not unreasonable to predict that the renovated airports, roads, and hotels will be a catalyst for growth into the future. Furthermore, the nearly $200 million spent...