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...pessimistic note, however, I don’t want to see the Ivy League left far behind on the national scene, as irrelevant as football in every sport. The ideal NCAA team—in short, a group of good people who can perform about as well as their peers in school and can still can compete for national championships—is not easily obtained. Ivy teams are among the most capable of achieving this goal, so why are they subject to the most arbitrary competitive restrictions in the country? If the Ivies continues to discriminate against its student...
...always been well-received by athletes. I and others have received complaints that we are not supporting teams enough, that athletes are just students, after all, and complaints that ask us how dare we ever criticize people who get up at daybreak every morning and put hours into their sport...
...individual in hockey, and no one has done that better than Jennifer Botterill in the history of college ice hockey. That’s why she’s the all-time leading scorer, men’s and women’s, in the history of the sport...
...know how hard it really is to win a championship and how much of a whole team effort it was,” Bajin said. “It’s really easy to be individual when you first come into college because tennis is such an individual sport and you’re not used to being on a team...
...don’t always get it, but that’s the expectation level,” Walsh once said. “I think it would be one of the greatest accomplishments in college baseball—in a sport that is so dominated by scholarships—that we could get there someday. … I think it would be a great story, seeing a school like Harvard, a Northeast school, all the things stacked against...