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...maybe play some JV, play some Division III baseball or something like that.”In Harvard’s Early Action group, Brown gained admission to the Class of 2006, based entirely upon his student record. Dartmouth admitted him in the spring, but Big Green coach Bob Whalen made no promises about baseball.Brown arrived in Cambridge in the fall.“The first week I was here...I was so scared to go down and play baseball,” Brown says. “Because I used to see the guys eating in Annenberg. The recruited...
DIED. ELEANOR HOLM WHALEN, 90, saucy Olympic swimming champion; in Miami. After winning the gold medal in the 100-m backstroke at the 1932 Games, she was favored to win again in 1936 in Berlin. But before the Games, she was thrown off the U.S. team for drinking and throwing dice with sportswriters. Her bad behavior, ahead of its time, propelled her to celebrity. She appeared in the movie Tarzan's Revenge and swam in Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME...
...DIED. ELEANOR HOLM WHALEN, 90, glamorous and saucy swimming star who won a gold medal in the 1932 Olympics but was kicked off the American team four years later for late-night carousing; in Miami. On the trans-Atlantic voyage to the 1936 Olympics, Holm spent an afternoon shooting dice with sportswriters and then stayed up late for "a few glasses of champagne." Her expulsion from the team made headlines, and Holm ended up writing about the Games for a wire service. She then acted in Tarzan's Revenge and performed in impresario-husband Billy Rose's Aquacade...
Delaney-Smith mainly worked with the guards, including Minnesota’s Lindsay Whalen and Rutgers’ Cappie Pondexter, two players she might face in the NCAA Tournament next spring...
Aside from placing in the top 10, Whalen also impressed with a time that averaged 5:50 a mile, and was a mere 25 seconds from the first-place finisher, Aly Venti of Amherst...