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Much more was going on in the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) this past weekend than your typical Pilates class. The men and women’s Intramural fencing tournament took place in the MAC fencing room—yes, there actually is one of those—where women and subsequently, men took a stab at one of the sports Harvard is actually good at (the varsity team just finished fifth in the nation). A variety of skill and experience levels were on display. While some competitors showed off consummate slicing and dicing skills, others more closely resembled two-year...
...from 20 to 30 hours a week with basketball. Practices even kept her from going home to California during vacations. But as the team fought its way out of a 1-10 start to the season to win an Ivy League title and a spot in the March Madness tournament, she found that it was worth...
...another; baseball, the oldest organized sport in the nation, may be the national pastime, yet it cannot claim to hold a monopoly on the people’s affections—the appeal of football and basketball offer their own substantial challenges. The dominant notion of playoffs and tournament structures in American sport is equally befuddling. Watching the major sporting events in my freshman year with a greater-than-usual sense of confusion, I couldn’t help asking questions: Why can none of these teams settle for a draw? Why do these competitions featuring only American participants contain...
...most dangerous team in the playoffs is most often the one with nothing to lose. The Harvard men’s volleyball team will look to prove this axiom correct tonight, as it enters the first round of the EIVA Championship seeded last in the eight-team tournament...
...policies, to her success at the helm of Harvard’s program—a program that, under Delaney-Smith’s guidance, has won 11 Ivy titles and garnered the only victory by a 16-seeded team over a top-seeded team in the NCAA tournament. That win by Harvard’s 1998 squad over top-ranked Stanford—a game that Delaney-Smith admitted was “full of ‘act as if’s’”—featured prominently in Johnson?...