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It’s time for me to admit it. My name is Dan, and I’m a Boston sports fan. It’s been four days since my last trip to Fenway.(Hi, Dan.)It wasn’t always this way. For 18 years I didn’t even know I had a problem. They were simpler times, growing up in Cambridge; every sports fan I knew liked the Red Sox, every sports fan I knew liked the Patriots, and the only subject of debate was whether Tom Brady was the greatest quarterback...
...ultimately, the season was incomplete. After controlling its own destiny for an outright title in the league’s final weekend, the Crimson wound up sharing the conference crown with Dartmouth and Cornell and falling in an Ivy playoff—and losing out on a return trip to the NCAA tournament. “Our ultimate goal was to get back to the tournament,” departing captain Lindsay Hallion said. “We had a lot of successes during the season, but we didn’t achieve that goal, and that was pretty disappointing...
Despite the change, Murphy and his players were not to lose again. The Crimson recovered with a decisive 32-15 win at Cornell, a traditionally difficult road trip and a potential trap game for a disappointed 1-2 Harvard squad...
...tournament crown.All the momentum seemed to be on Harvard’s side. The team easily defeated Dartmouth, 5-1, in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, completing an undefeated season at Bright Hockey Center.That win, the 300th career victory for Stone, earned the Crimson a trip to Duluth, Minn. to play Wisconsin in the national semifinals.Unfortunately, this fairytale didn’t have the happiest of endings. Harvard fell, 4-1, in Minnesota, as the Badgers handed the Crimson a season-ending loss for the second consecutive year.“Of course, it’s tough...
...half-mile radius of our homes (Quadlings excluded), our subjects and sources eat meals in the same dining halls as we, and we don’t have to work with schmucks like Joe Morgan. Of course, for every 10 home games we cover, there’s a trip down the ever-dangerous Muller Hill Road, but professional journalists generally have much more trying lives than student-journalists do.But it is indeed that closeness of access and the connection to our subjects that creates the discomfort we must deal with. When we step into the press box, we must...