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...fair, but at the same time, it was perfectly fitting for two teams that, in their two matchups this season, seemed to match up stride for stride. On Sept. 17, the Crimson and Northeastern went took a 1-1 tie into overtime before senior Nicole Rhodes scored the game-winner in the 99th minute. The teams weren’t strangers to each other, and they certainly weren’t strangers to overtime. The extra time in Friday evening’s match marked the sixth time that each team has needed more than 90 minutes to settle...
...tight games, how a team’s defense and special teams perform often decides the winner. That was precisely the one-two punch that carried the No. 18 Harvard men’s hockey team (4-2-0, 4-2-0 ECAC) to victory in its 1-0 win over No. 19 St. Lawrence Saturday night at Bright Hockey Center. The most exciting part of the game for the Crimson defense came in the last part of the second period and carried through the intermission into the third. Harvard had committed two penalties and faced...
...winner of Saturday’s matchup will play at South Florida on Tuesday night...
...better shot at winning the game. In fact, in 44% of the overtime games since 2006, the team that won the coin-toss has gone on to win the game without the other team even getting the ball, according to the Elias Sports Bureau; overall, the coin toss winner eventually won 64% of the games. "That [kind of statistic] really sticks out," admits New York Giants co-owner John Mara, who sits on the league's competition committee. "It's too high. That's a pretty big advantage...
...play a musical instrument perform better on tests of motor, auditory, vocabulary, and non-verbal reasoning skills, according to a study by Harvard researchers released last month. The study, which was led by co-principal investigators Gottfried Schlaug, an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Ellen Winner, a professor of psychology at Boston College and a senior research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, tested a group of 59 musicians and non-musicians ranging from eight to eleven years old. The tests showed that the children who had played piano and, or a string instrument...