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...season. “If we can stay healthy and if we can continue to work and keep the right attitude, we can do special things,” Clark said. And the manner of their early performances has the players already thinking of another trip to the NCAA tournament. “The last two years we’ve felt that we’ve underachieved a bit,” Akpan said. “So while our immediate goal is to win the next game, ultimately we’d like to get back...
...can’t win them all.Hosting its only tournament of the 2008 season, the Harvard women’s volleyball team met with mixed success at last weekend’s Harvard Invitational, coming out 1-2 overall.“I think it was a great start to the year for us,” junior co-captain Lily Durwood said. “It was a really challenging schedule because...American always wins their league, and Long Beach State is one of the top teams in the country.”After a tough 3-0 loss...
After the first day of play at the season-opening Dartmouth Invitational, the Harvard women’s golf team found itself in the unfamiliar and unpleasant position of third place. However, a strong Sunday allowed the Crimson to take victory in the tournament for the third year in a row. In the end, it was comfortable for Harvard (314-302-616), as the team led the second round by 15 strokes, easily moving ahead of Ancient Eight rivals Dartmouth and Brown. The Crimson went into Hanover as the favorites in the 17-team field. Coming off of its first...
...tennis team learned the hard way this weekend that it cannot rest on its laurels if it is to break into the highest echelon of collegiate tennis. Given that the team has had no official practices and that it is still tuning up for important fall tournaments in the coming months, the Crimson faced one of the toughest lineups imaginable at the Napa Valley Collegiate Invitational. In one weekend, Harvard took on as many top 30 teams as it did all of last season, playing the defending national champions, No. 1 Georgia, as well as No. 15 Illinois...
...marijuana affair reflects the problems faced by a sport that has been assigned a deep cultural significance, yet which is struggling to sustain interest. The number of aspiring wrestlers is dwindling: Whereas each tournament used to attract over 100 new applicants up until about a decade ago to join the ranks of the rikishi, in the most recent event there were only three. "Because of a low birth rate there are fewer children to grow up to become sumo wrestlers," says sports journalist Seijun Ninomiya. "So, out of necessity, we began to turn to overseas athletes." Today, more than...