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...Harvard women’s hockey team. The Crimson (5-5-3, 5-2-2 ECAC) got a big win on Wednesday night in Hanover, N.H., taking down No. 3 Dartmouth (7-4-1, 6-2-1 ECAC), 3-2. Sophomore Liza Ryabkina played the hero, netting the game-winner early in the third period. “It was a hard-fought game, and we capitalized on our opportunities,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “The kids were ready to go. They played very alert, together hockey.”Just three days after...
...Harvard women’s hockey team. The Crimson (5-5-3, 5-2-2 ECAC) got a big win on Wednesday night in Hanover, N.H., taking down No. 3 Dartmouth (7-4-1, 6-2-1 ECAC), 3-2. Sophomore Liza Ryabkina played the hero, netting the game-winner early in the third period. “It was a hard-fought game, and we capitalized on our opportunities,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “The kids were ready to go. They played very alert, together hockey.”Just three days after...
...reached laughable levels. "Head coaches may be hearing all this talk about how 'we're all in this together,'" says Jeff Van Gundy, former coach of the New York Knicks and Houston Rockets and now an ABC/ESPN analyst. "In reality, not really. Unless your name is [nine-time title winner] Phil Jackson, [four-time title winner] Gregg Popovich, [21-year Utah Jazz coach] Jerry Sloan or ['08 champ] Doc Rivers, if you lose three games in a row, you're instantly on the hot seat. I really do believe that...
...Hall University, had never meshed with pro players: in the 1990s, he failed in both Portland and Golden State, where he found himself on the receiving end of Latrell Sprewell's infamous choke hold. Randy Wittman was coaching a team that everyone expected to be cellar dwellers, and proved winner Eddie Jordan has had to deal with a raft of early-season injuries...
...what of his opponent? John McCain is a charter Teddy Award winner, a former exemplar of free-range political candor. Not this year. He ran a dismal campaign that seems even smaller in retrospect. He spent almost all his energy trying to besmirch his opponent without offering a memorable new idea. Still, he deserves credit for two steps he didn't take: he did not play the race card by regurgitating the hateful sermons of Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor; and he did not play the anti-immigrant card that might have appealed to frightened average Joes and assorted...