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...profound majority. It’s an affront to “M*A*S*H” to toss its crown so casually to a yearly sporting event identified only by a generic Roman numeral. This is a series that won 14 Emmy Awards, and in the decades since it went off the air, has been homaged on everything from “The Simpsons” to “Sesame Street” (and twice in this season of “Community” alone). A few hundred thousand Super Bowl viewers shouldn?...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Remembering Radar O’Reilly: The Ratings Legacy of ‘M*A*S*H’ | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...with sublime grace. Which teams would prevent a person from even dreaming about taking a bathroom break during their routines, like the baseball player who compels you to drop everything while he's at bat? In a sport like figure skating, in which there's no finish line to crown a clear-cut winner, you might as well judge with your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Watching Figure Skating, Judge for Yourself | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...suit in November 2006. He claimed that someone hacked into the computers of his main laboratory, which was analyzing urine samples taken from American cyclist Floyd Landis that year. Those samples had already tested positive for testosterone doping; as a result, Landis was stripped of his Tour de France crown. But the hackers accessing the lab's computers falsified files linked to Landis' case. The altered data were then circulated as evidence that the lab's work was so sloppy it shouldn't be trusted as proof against Landis. To no avail: he was eventually banned from the sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Doping, Now Hacking: The Floyd Landis War | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

While Harvard’s championship hopes have taken a hit the last two weeks and are now a long shot, many games remain to be played. Anything can happen, but one thing is certain. If the Crimson is to challenge for the Ivy crown, it will take a league-wide effort...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hoop Dreams Hinge on Help | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

...seemed determined to will the team to a victory. Coming off the crushing 36-point loss at Cornell in what was the most anticipated game in Harvard history, the Crimson needed the win to stay close to the Big Red and remain in contention for the league crown. Whether or not every student knew the importance of the matchup on display, collectively, they weren’t giving...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Relies On Sixth Man | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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