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...Here we go--it's sudden-death overtime with the Beanpot championship on the line...
...Butler (197) dropped matches by two and one points, respectively, the Crimson had trouble recovering.Knapp followed with another tough loss, 2-6, to Trey McLean, giving Penn a 17-7 lead. After a major decision loss by Dan Kelley at 125 lbs, Picarsic fought admirably, losing a 3-1 sudden victory to Bryan Ortenzio. While Picarsic’s result represented one of many stellar efforts by Harvard wrestlers, the ranked Penn squad proved too strong to overcome...
...General" took the Hoosiers to an undefeated '76 season--a feat not since repeated--and three NCAA championships. Knight, 67, who led the U.S. to Olympic gold in 1984, emphasized teamwork, never broke NCAA rules and ran clean programs with high graduation rates. In a sudden midseason move, the combative Hall of Famer resigned on Feb. 4 as head coach at Texas Tech, his home since being fired by Indiana. Knight, who is succeeded by his son Pat, told colleagues he was tired. But he was also following a tradition of writing his own script. Last year, when he broke...
...many of us, though, Valentine's Day only pretends to celebrate what we like about love while actually undermining it. True romance comes unscheduled, unruly, "a madness most discreet," quoth Romeo. Overtime, as it ripens into devotion, still it improvises, a favor rendered, a sudden kiss, a private joke, flowers for no reason. Its expression is the very opposite of the fretful, "pre-order now, or be left with drugstore chocolates" connivances that the day promotes. For those who feel well loved, every day, of course, is Valentine's. For the rest, no card can console...
...making a lot of duct tape wallets,” David Rakoff says of his most recent pursuits. “For friends and family—it’s a hobby of mine, they don’t pay me to make them.”The sudden rash of adhesive-based accoutrements doesn’t constitute a new direction for the humorist and author so much as a means of putting off his next book. Rakoff and fellow humorist Sarah Vowell—both contributors to Chicago Public Radio’s “This...