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Professors today reacted with relief that a vicious showdown with Summers at next week's Faculty meeting had been averted...
...Heading for an another inevitable gold-medal showdown at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Team Canada and Team U.S.A. are alone at the top of a women's sport struggling mightily to develop outside North America. They have contested the final of every significant international tournament since the International Ice Hockey Federation first sanctioned the women's world championships in 1990. Canada won eight consecutive world titles until Team U.S.A.'s 1-0 victory last April in Sweden, decided by an overtime shoot-out. The Americans captured the inaugural Winter Olympics tournament at Nagano, Japan, and Canada rebounded...
...There’s Lackner, a gritty forward whose effort on the defensive end is trumped only by her willingness to dive on the floor after any semblance of a loose ball. Lackner’s defense and acumen on the offensive glass kept Harvard in its first Ivy showdown with Brown, though the Crimson eventually bowed out 64-62 on a buzzer-beater. More importantly, however, is the depth of the Harvard frontcourt, a luxury that coach Kathy Delaney-Smith could barely even dream of a year ago. “We had no low post players last year...
...Friesinger will face a strong field of U.S. and Canadian racers. Japanese ski jumpers, Korean short-track speedsters and even the British curling team are vying for a medal or two. As for that final gold-medal match in hockey, North Americans would like to see a U.S.-Canada showdown, but Russia and the Czech Republic could crash the party. And an international crew of stoked young snowboarders, mogulers and aerialists will bring the razzmatazz of extreme sports to these Games. New to the lineup is a breakneck race called SBX (snowboard cross) that pits four to six boarders racing...
...swept an Ivy road weekend and has won Friday night’s game just four times in 16 chances.After the loss to Yale over intersession, Harvard must sweep the Lions and Big Red or else face the prospect of entering next weekend’s showdown with Penn two games behind in the loss column.“I hope that we’ve been able to impress upon the younger guys the importance of this roadtrip,” captain Matt Stehle said. “I said to the guys after Saturday?...