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...squash team will look to defend last year’s national championship this weekend as it competes for the Howe Cup in New Haven, Conn. The Crimson will have to play several preliminary rounds first, but all signs point to a rematch with last year’s runner-up and this year’s top seed, Trinity...
...just after the first round of the men's 500m speedskating; Jeremy Wotherspoon, the Canadian favorite and front-runner for gold, has just lost everything by tripping on his skate two seconds into the race. Reporters, particularly those writing for a Canadian audience, are hotly debating whether Jeremy will talk. "I heard he's not talking to anyone until tomorrow," one Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporter announces. "That's crap," mutters his colleague. "Can he even do that to us?" We all pace back and forth, arguing over whether poor Jeremy will inflict this insult...
...role of bombmaker was a surprising one for Yazid, who officials say was a minor figure in the Selangor branch of the KMM, a "runner" as one puts it. But Yazid flourished in the Jemaah Islamiah, rising to become Hambali's most trusted lieutenant. Hambali ordered Yazid to host the two hijackers who died in the Pentagon attack at his condo in Kuala Lumpur. Yazid has told his interrogators that he had no knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks but, one official says, he suspected the men who stayed at his apartment had some role in the attacks because "they...
...performance at Notre Dame’s Meyo Invitational the week before. After posting a time just one second slower than the NCAA provisional qualifying cutoff at the Notre Dame meet, McLean-Foreman turned in a slightly disappointing performance of 4:12.39, and was given some competition by Yale runner Robert Dwyer’s late surge...
During the Olympics in Sydney in 2000, for example, I recall a moving tale of a Kenyan middle-distance runner who perservered in the face of civil war, poverty and famine. The considerable complexity of many of the winter sports leads to less dramatic tales. A human-interest story at the Salt Lake Winter Games might go something like this...