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...Friday before breezing past out-of-conference opponent No. 8 Williams (0-2) on Sunday. The weekend’s victories boosted Harvard to a 2-0 record, a start that surprises none given the team’s stacked lineup and a national championship appearance last year...
...Crimson will need to be at its prime in both areas to challenge the team that deprived them of a collegiate championship last year, the Princeton Tigers, when they come to Cambridge on February 7. But according to Bajwa, the Tigers—who lost to Stanford yesterday—might not be at the level they played last year...
...playing Monmouth, which went 16-1-1 in the regular season, will not make things any easier on the Crimson. The Muhawks won the Northeast Conference Tournament title and their fifth straight regular season championship this past year. They’ve been ranked in the national top-10 for seven consecutive weeks. And they feature one of the best defenses in the country, leading the nation in shutout percentage—they’ve held 70% of their opponents, including UConn yesterday, scoreless—and rank second in the country in goals against average (0.35 per game...
...Consider all the positive strides in British-Irish relations since 1986, the year Diego Maradona's similarly illegal "Hand of God" goal knocked England out of the World Cup quarterfinals and propelled Argentina to the championship. Do we now want the Brits bitter that the Irish got their do-over, and they didn't? In 1985, umpire Don Denkinger cost the St. Louis Cardinals a World Series by blowing an obvious call at first base in the bottom of the ninth in Game 6. How did the Cardinal faithful respond to their unholy, unjust loss to their intra-state opponent...
...basketball team won their 17th championship in June...