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...enemy territory, the Crimson’s captain finally kicked that door through and made the team’s first statement win official. On a beautiful afternoon at Harvard’s Cumnock Turf, Nicole Rhodes scored eight minutes into overtime to seal a 2-1 win over crosstown rival Northeastern (3-3-1). Since opening its season with two losses in California September 5-7, the Crimson has not dropped a decision. “It was great to win today and keep the momentum going—we’d been finding a rhythm...
...news late Monday that Manchester United, current champions of English and European league soccer, had bought the Bulgarian star Dimitar Berbatov might usually have rankled the long-suffering fans of Manchester City, United's fierce crosstown rivals. City supporters have spent years living in the shadow of their more illustrious and wealthier neighbors, and the acquisition of the prodigious talents of Berbatov would make United even harder to beat. Instead, City fans had plenty of reason to cheer even as United shelled out $56 million for the Bulgarian: Manchester City was bought by an Abu Dhabi holding company, which pumped...
...season for both John McCain and Barack Obama. A week past the All-Star break, McCain's home-state squad, the Arizona Diamondbacks, are leading the National League West. Obama is having an even better Major League year. His beloved Chicago White Sox are atop their division, and their crosstown rivals, the long-cursed Cubs, have the third best record in baseball. At Obama headquarters, there are dreams taking hold that both hometown teams might win a pennant, leading them to face off in the World Series on the eve of the election. Obama would almost certainly attend some...
...commanding fashion, notching big wins over its ECAC rivals, including a 6-1 drubbing of St. Lawrence in which sophomore goaltender Kyle Richter recorded a career-high 42 saves to anchor the Crimson defense.The first turning point in Harvard’s season came on Dec. 12 against crosstown rival Boston College. Although the Crimson held a 36-27 advantage in shots on goal, the team simply failed to find the back of the net in a 7-2 blowout loss to the Eagles. “That could have been one of the worst beatings we?...
...team character,” Shapiro said. Harvard could not translate this show of fortitude into a championship run through the Ivy schedule, dropping five of the next six, including the season-ending match at Columbia. During this slide, in which the Crimson fell to two Ivy opponents and crosstown rivals Boston College and Boston University, the team’s 1-0 overtime loss at home to the No. 20 Princeton Tigers ended Harvard’s championship quest. Despite a relentless defensive effort in which junior goalkeeper Kylie Stone stopped nine shots, the Tigers found...