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Sharp got its flat-screen focus from Katsuhiko Machida, the company's president, who for years fretted that his outfit was doomed to be a second-tier player. When he ran Sharp's television business in the 1980s, Machida says, the firm had trouble competing because it didn't manufacture the most important TV component, the cathode-ray tube. Forced to cobble together parts bought from competitors, Sharp was little more than an assembler, cranking out sets that were always a little too expensive and a little too poorly engineered to attract many customers. It was a dispiriting struggle, says...
Instead, St. Francis shut down the Crimson offense and managed to notch seven goals of its own in the second half. Harvard was double-teaming the Terriers hole set, and though the strategy was successful most of the time, it also left a St. Francis player unattended in the pool...
...Player of the Year will never again wear a big H on his helmet. But for one game at least, his replacements looked perfectly comfortable—and capable of—stepping into his place...
...worst incident—which left senior midfielder Jeff Chivers with a broken ankle—came when a Paladin player slammed into Chivers after the whistle was blown...
...team player in Tracy trains a knowing eye on his old unit...