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...registered 25 scores. “[Vaillancourt] pretty much just picked up where [she] left off,” Stone said following the victory. Nevertheless, against the top teams in the country, Vaillancourt’s stick handling will not prove enough to score goals, and both the player and her coach recognized that after the RPI contest. “We got a little greedy at times—not with goals, but with possession of the puck in certain areas of the ice,” Stone added. Therefore, some of the most promising moments from a team...
Senior preseason All-American Mike Berg was named the Ivy League’s defensive player of the week after his performance opposite the ball against Dartmouth on Saturday. The defensive tackle led a Harvard defensive performance that notched its first shutout in two years, a 28-0 win over the Big Green. Berg led the team with seven tackles, three for a loss, as well as two forced fumbles, a fumble recovery, and a sack. He filled up three categories on a single play Saturday, when he charged through the line to sack Dartmouth quarterback Mike Fritz before...
...Last week, U.S. forces twice entered Sadr City, where they rarely venture, as the search for a kidnapped U.S. soldier continued. These raids were criticized by the Iraqi government, in which Sadr remains a key player. But as of Sunday, U.S. forces were maintaining roadblocks around much of the area, where U.S. officials at one point thought the soldier may be held in a mosque...
...Disney man took over an organization that inked a $1.2 billion TV and marketing deal in 1999 with Swiss company ISL, only to watch that outfit go belly up two years later. To weather the loss, the ATP cut staff, eliminated player bonuses and pushed for more sponsorship dollars. Worse, the sport's U.S. television viewership leveled off; it's nowhere close to golf...
...Villiers intends to drum up interest by promoting plotlines and player drama--reality TV for the country-club set. "We have the most phenomenal characters of any sport, but we're not doing a good enough job telling the story," he says, his entertainment background evident. (His staff even calls him E.T.) To pitch tennis to the public, De Villiers hired marketing ace Phil Anderton, a veteran of Coca-Cola and the Scottish Rugby League, where he garnered the nickname "Fireworks Phil" for the countless fan-friendly ideas he brought to the sport (yes, including fireworks...