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...didn’t do anything to match the intensity that they had. It wasn’t Harvard basketball out there. It was just bad.”The win puts Cornell (15-6, 7-1 Ivy) in sole possession of first place going into the second round of Ivy play. The Big Red beat Harvard for the first time in four years, paced by the torrid shooting of guard Gretchen Gregg—the nation’s leading three-point shooter at 48 percent from beyond the arc—and a ferocious effort on the offensive...
...Barack Obama builds momentum in post-Super Tuesday states, it is important to remember that the sporting event most analogous to what we are witnessing is not a horse race. Think rather of a fifteen- round boxing match. The fact that one fighter may be more bloodied at the end may not matter if he (or she) is still standing and has the same or more points over fifteen rounds...
...many times, these quick fixes fail; the inflated egos can't fit into the same arena. Those Rockets lost in the first round of the playoffs. The Yankees haven't won a World Series in seven years. So how do you explain the 2008 Boston Celtics? Last season, the Cs, one of the most celebrated sport franchises, winners of 16 titles, were the joke of the NBA. They finished 24-58 and at one point doormatted 18 straight games. During the off-season, Celtics GM Danny Ainge pulled off a pair of heists, bringing Kevin Garnett...
...rearing its ugly head—maybe this young Crimson team was simply another year away, and couldn’t compete with the usual Ancient Eight suspects. Whatever the reason, Harvard snapped into shape after the Yale loss and didn’t lose again until the first round of the NCAA tournament. In between its two losses came 12 straight Ivy wins, including sweet revenge against Yale at home and an 18-point blowout of rival Dartmouth in its final regular-season game. While I can’t predict the future, I detect a familiar pattern...
...superdelegate conundrum is likely to resolve itself without much drama. The thing to remember about superdelegates is that they are pols-and tend not to be all that independent-minded anyway. The last thing they want is to act as referees who call the winner of a grueling 15-round championship fight. In fact, for most of the superdelegates, choosing-in public-between the heroine of one set of Democratic voters and the hero of a different set is a nightmare. What is most likely is that the superdelegates will stay on the fence. They will sit tight...