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...Traditionalists may still moan that cricket and cash mix about as well as crumpets and curry. But the game began its commercial revolution three decades ago when Australian media magnate Kerry Packer, who died last December, broke away from the sports establishment and signed 50 top players to his World Series Cricket. Packer's venture was short-lived, but his innovations?white balls, colored team strips, floodlights and high player salaries?stuck. Today, a second commercial upheaval is evident in the number of companies vying for a slice of cricket's growth on the subcontinent. Nimbus...
...scoring the first six points of the second half to take a 21-point lead, 43-22. The margin would slowly grow, sometimes dipping below 20, but eventually reaching its pinnacle at 29 with 2:15 left to play. For Harvard, junior center Brian Cusworth was the only player to record double figures in any category besides field goals attempted and minutes played. He had 11 rebounds, despite playing with a broken right hand. “I just want to finish this year on a high note,” Cusworth said. “Injuries have been rough...
...name, that of Max A. Newman ’07 must be added to the pantheon of Harvard’s great leisure-sport players. The Dunster House Grille played host to its first ever Connect Four Championship Tournament last night. The organizers, Dunster House residents Sophia P. Snyder ‘07 and Dara F. Goodman ‘07 postered, e-mailed, and networked their way to an entry pool of roughly 30 contestants. The music blared, the pieces clacked, and the victors rose as the double-elimination tournament rolled on through the night. Sticky notes...
...walk out.”STEHLE CURTAIN CALLSaturday’s tilt with Columbia will mark the last game in the career of Harvard’s captain, Matt Stehle. Barely recruited out of nearby Newton South high school, Stehle has gone on to become one of the best players in school history. Stehle, who has started every game since the beginning of his sophomore season, emerged in the 2003-04 season to lead the team in rebounds, then built himself into a first-team all-Ivy player last year before assuming the team captaincy this year.The left-handed power...
...East Coast, as she did in her critically acclaimed novels Strange Heaven and Saints of Big Harbour. In Mean Boy, the geek hero's adventures with his mentor and experiments with alcohol, women and new forms of poetic expression (plus his unlikely friendship with a behemoth football player) all provide fodder for comedy. And somewhere in the haze of hangovers, the novel also manages to examine the nature of poetry, poets and the underappreciated fine art of growing...