Word: face-off
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...isn’t feeling any added pressure. “There’s always a lot at stake when you put on your jersey,” Stone said. “Our approach will be to go out and win our next game.” Face-off against the Big Green will be at 7 p.m. tonight...
...face-off with the clock. Narrowing my eyes, I dared it to move yet another minute ahead. It did. Jumping up, I approached the people at the table for the third time, asking in my most polite passive-aggressive voice if they knew how much longer this would take. They shrugged and gave me a lollipop to shut me up. There was nothing to be done, so I trudged back to my seat, resuming my battle with the clock, a war I had already waged for two and a half hours. Next to me, a girl sighed in defeat, shaking...
...jammed the rebound past Saints goalie Meghan Guckian. With netminder Ali Boe already pulled for an extra skater, and a St. Lawrence defender sent to the penalty box for cross-checking with 32 seconds remaining, the Crimson was presented with one last chance to force overtime. The face-off, however, skidded back into the Harvard defensive zone and senior Jennifer Raimondi gathered the puck with only 20 ticks left. Raimondi carried across the blue line before leaving for junior Jennifer Sifers, who drove to the goal and pushed a shot at Guckian. The rebound fell to the left side, where...
...taking that draw.” On a team that lost five seniors to graduation and three standouts to national teams and replaced the departures with eight freshmen, there is some doubt as to who will fill the leadership void. With stand-up plays like the late face-off, Raimondi is helping to quell those doubts. “She’s a tremendous leader in this program,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “She’ll do anything she can, go anywhere she can. Huge faceoff at the end of the game...
Activist groups have been filling their coffers for years in anticipation of just such a high-stakes face-off. Now, with the swing vote of retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor hanging in the balance, they have no intention of saving it for a rainy day. Soon after the choice of Alito was announced, the organization Progress for America launched a $425,000 one-week media campaign in support of the nominee. The liberal group People for the American Way is starting a slow rollout of its own spate of anti-Alito commercials, the fastest it has ever started...