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...Charismatic, charming and appealing to all ages" is how Ben Mulroney's employer CTV describes him. The kind of attributes ideal for a career in politics, one might think. But Mulroney, son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, has resisted the pull of Parliament and has made his mark in showbiz. He has presented all five series of Canadian Idol since...
...narrowed the lead back to 10 at 56-46.But UVM forward Colin McIntosh answered with a three-point, increasing the noise from the Catamounts fans—“I looked around and the whole place was yellow,” Lonergan said afterwards—and the favorites pulled away from there. The fight in the Hawks stayed for the entire game, personified by Taylor, who had 22 points, six steals and five rebounds the night after his buzzer-beater had given Hartford a 49-47 win over Stony Brook in the first round. He fouled out with...
...said. “As the game wore on, we were able to do that.” The first of Reese’s scores came 6:41 into the second period, when he snuck a low shot from the blue line past Yale goaltender Alec Richards to pull Harvard within one. “We did a good job getting pucks to the net and getting people in front of the goalie,” Donato said of his team’s effort on the power play. “We got some deflections and some good...
...league in both three-point makes and percentage. But with the game’s outcome in the balance, Cornell leading 71-68 with 4:14 to play, the visitors mounted a stunning insurgency, reeling off three-point plays on four of their next five possessions to pull ahead for good.Sophomore point guard Drew Housman tied the game and silenced the crowd by nailing a three off a feed from freshman guard Jeremy Lin. After a rare long-distance miss from Big Red assassin Ryan Wittman, Goffredo followed with his seventh—and most crucial—three-pointer...
...previous night’s game against Cornell, however, the Crimson would scratch away the early deficit with an extended run. A 12-0 spurt, capped by a three-pointer from Goffredo, gave Harvard an 18-15 advantage, raising the hope that the Crimson could pull off an improbable road sweep on the season’s last weekend.But the Lions closed the first half by outscoring Harvard 20-5 and took a 37-26 lead into halftime. Whether due to the exhaustion of the second leg of a road trip to opposite ends of New York state...