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...SHIZUKA ARAKAWA beat favorites Sasha Cohen of the U.S., who won the silver, and Irina Slutskaya of Russia, who took home the bronze. Arakawa, 24, considered retiring in 2004 and finished ninth at last year's world championships. But she stuck with it to please her dad and wound up scoring Japan's first figure-skating gold and becoming a national hero. Happy now, Mr. Arakawa? --By Alice Park...
PHILADELPHIA—On Friday night, Harvard was able at long last to shake off the sedative effects of two crushing last-second losses.Whether due to wounded pride over eight straight losses to Penn, the inspiring atmosphere of The Palestra, or the realization that a once-promising season is nearly over, the Crimson fought back after a lackluster effort two weekends ago at home versus Brown and Yale. Its inspired play, however, was not enough to top the league’s leader in an extremely physical battle. The Crimson was unable to snap the five-game skid that began...
...last collegiate match,” Broadbent said. “So I was pretty fired up.” As it turned out, it was the fourth-seeded match, which paired the Crimson’s Jason de Lierre with the Bulldogs’ Moshe Safarty, that wound up being the turning point for Harvard. Down 2-0, it looked as though de Lierre would be unable to match his opponent’s intensity and pull out the win in the fourth slot. As time went on, though, de Lierre grew more confident and Safarty appeared to tire...
...game, you try to take shots that are of the highest percentage,” Keyser said, explaining how she was able to score so many goals. “I just wound up being in the position to take the high-percentage shots...
...team’s eight goals, including three straight in the fourth quarter when Harvard was trailing, 6-5.“In any game, you try to take shots that are of the highest percentage,” Keyser said. “I just wound up being in the position to take the high percentage shots.”Keyser’s performance left her teammates in awe.“Arin carried the team,” Gardner said. “She really stepped up when we needed her to. It was so much motivation...