Word: upsetness
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...last weekend’s Crimson wins against then-No. 38 William and Mary and Purdue. Clayton’s hair-raising 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 win on Friday against William and Mary was the fourth and decisive point in Harvard’s 4-3 upset victory and showed that he had raised the level of his game, turning himself from a pesky defensive opponent into a fearsome attacker from any point on the court. After splitting two sets against Alex Cojanu, an opponent who had improved vastly since Clayton disposed of him easily in youth tennis...
...shot 55.3 percent in the first half to storm to an 18-point lead at the break, then coasted in the second frame to an easy 82-64 victory over Princeton (4-15, 1-2 Ivy). A night after pulling off a nail-biter against an upset-minded Penn squad, the Crimson put away any thoughts of a thriller by jumping out to an early lead. Junior Emily Tay scored 15 points to lead a balanced offensive attack, while co-captain Lindsay Hallion chipped in 14 on 6-of-9 shooting. Nine other players scored for Harvard, which tied...
Real men cry. Not at movies or weddings but at important stuff: a shocking playoff upset, the cruelty of a blind referee, a perfectly executed pick-and-roll. This is the secret behind the NBA's "Where Amazing Happens" ad campaign, which sets still frames of basketball stars to a slowly building piano piece called EVERYDAY by Carly Comando. If fans are fish and the NBA is a barrel, Everyday is the bullet. The song was originally composed as the sound track for a viral video in which photographer Noah Kalina cut together pictures of himself taken in an identical...
...that the rest of the nation feels towards them. They have already won three playoff games that they were not supposed to win, and they go into yet another one with a chip on their shoulder and nothing to lose.It is true that, for the Giants to achieve the upset of all upsets, a lot of “maybes” have to swing in their direction.Maybe the thunder and lightning running back combo of Brandon Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw will wear out the experienced but aging linebacker corps of the Patriots.Maybe New York’s fearsome defensive...
Tomorrow’s contest will also be nationally televised on ESPNU—Harvard’s second appearance this season on the network. In the first, the Crimson upset Michigan in front of a raucous home crowd...