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PARTING SHOT: Sports Writer Learns Lessons on Writing, History, Friendship
It’s hard for me to pinpoint the exact moment when writing sports for The Crimson no longer had anything to do with sports. Maybe it never did.
Baseball Faces Must-Win this Weekend
Weekend after weekend, spit after split, I’ve harped the Harvard baseball team’s need to do better than 2-2 if it wants to make it to the Ivy League Championship series.
Around The Diamond: Baseball Season Enters Home Stretch
In the cruel world that is the Ivy League baseball schedule, the winds of fortune are unpredictable. One weekend set of doubleheaders can turn a last-place loser into a contender, while at the same time derailing a promising championship run with ruthless efficiency.
Baseball Around the Ivies, First Edition
Thankfully it’s April, and baseball is back. With spring trainining over, the Major Leagues have kicked off the regular season and all is right with the world. The Harvard baseball team has also been back in action, and with the first weekend of Ivy play under its belt, the Crimson finds itself in an unfamiliar place (at least in the last few years): first.
Bats Quiet As Harvard Splits Doubleheader
In Game 1, defensive lapses and an anemic offensive showing squandered a stellar outing by sophomore pitcher Conner Hulse in a 1-0 Harvard loss to the Sacred Heart Pioneers on Saturday. The Crimson rebounded in the nightcap, riding a home run by junior captain Tyler Albright and a sixth-inning rally to a 3-2 victory.
Harvard Athletes Talk Cornell
If you’re a sports fan and you haven’t been living under a rock without Wi-Fi, you know by now that ...
For the Love of the Game
Harvard Coach Joe Walsh shares some of the experiences that have gotten him to where he is today.
Ryabkina’s Goal Enough For Beanpot Title
Sometimes all it takes is one. Ask Liza Ryabkina.
Q&A With Peter Gammons
It’s a rare opportunity for fans of America’s pastime to pick the brain of one of the great baseball storytellers of the 20th Century, but that’s exactly what a captivated crowd at the First Church of Cambridge Congregational’s Lindsay Chapel had the opportunity to do last Thursday when Hall of Fame sports writer Peter Gammons came to speak.
Bellamy Shines as Harvard Bests Dartmouth
After mixed results in her first five appearances, freshman goalkeeper Laura Bellamy steadied herself just in time for a barrage of Dartmouth shots on Friday in Hanover, N.H., making 37 saves in a 4-1 Crimson win.
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Harvard Baseball vs. Penn (Apr. 11, 2010)
VIDEO: The Harvard baseball team upset Penn this weekend in a double header at O'Donnell Field.
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Harvard Baseball at Fenway Park
Once a year, Harvard baseball gets to take the field of one of Major League Baseball's most majestic cathedrals, Fenway Park. For most of the players, it is the closest they'll come to being a big leaguer, and it affords the unique opportunity to stand where some of baseball's greatest giants once stood: Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, and Jackie Robinson, to name a few. Though the result of Monday's game was not what the baseball team had hoped for, the chance to play at Fenway was certainly what they had dreamed of
Harvard Women's Hockey vs. St. Lawrence (Feb. 20, 2009)
Between the hype, the stakes, and the caliber of the teams involved, Friday nights game had all the right ingredients for another classic battle between the No. 9 Harvard womens hockey team and No. 7 St. Lawrence. But in the end, it was just another night, another conference win for the Crimson. An early offensive outburst and a dominant defensive showing gave Harvard an easy 4-0 victory over the Saints at Bright Hockey Center in the first game of the final weekend of the regular season.