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...that had seemingly been scouting out first-round NCAA locations for about a month now would need to beat Princeton in Jadwin or else face the prospect of a neutral site do-or-die playoff game against a team that went 2-11 against non-conference competition.All of a sudden, the “seeding watches” that have dominated most of the banter involving bored Ivy basketball fans would be halted momentarily to watch the league teeter on the brink of the play-in game.And all it would take is one—and only one?...
...quarterfinals of the ECAC playoffs commence at Bright Hockey Center tonight with the eighth-ranked Harvard women’s hockey team squaring off against conference upstart No. 10 Clarkson for the second time in a week. The Crimson topped the Golden Knights, 3-2, on a last-second, sudden-death goal by senior Jennifer Raimondi last Saturday, to earn host privileges for the best-of-three series. The puck drops at 7 p.m. tonight, with game two scheduled for 4 p.m. tomorrow and a rubber match at the same time on Sunday, if necessary...
...afternoon last July, a strikingly handsome young Cuban walked across the bridge from Reynosa, Mexico, into McAllen, Texas, and asked U.S. border agents for political asylum. The first sign that he was no ordinary defector came when the agents ran a computer check on his identity. "All of a sudden," recalls the Cuban, "they were shaking my hand, congratulating me, asking for my autograph." Was he a political dissident? A pop singer? A baseball pitcher? In fact, in his own realm he was an even bigger catch. He was Rolando Sarabia, 23, a star of Cuba's National Ballet, whose...
...question of how the Administration is supposed to win hearts and minds in the Muslim world if it presumes that all businesses there are natural enemies. The President went so far as to ask, "those who are questioning [the deal] to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard...
...break. “When they get going, their crowd gets going,” Housman said. “Everything gets magnified. We still have a five-point lead, but their crowd is going so crazy that it feels like we’re losing all of a sudden. Then, we stopped doing what we did to get us that lead.” Penn forward Steve Danley and swingman Friedrich Ebede were limited to a combined 22 minutes after Danley left with an injury to his nose and Ebede departed after getting fouled hard on a layup attempt...