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Emmett Kistler

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Writing Sports: Man Vs. Machine

By Emmett Kistler  • 

Last month StatSheet released upon the Internet its “Robot Army,” a massive system of websites designed to track each NCAA Division I men’s basketball team.


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NOTEBOOK: Turnovers Make Difference in Contest

By Emmett Kistler  • 

With 11 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, the glaring sun disappeared behind the west stadium wall of Franklin Field. Chances had set on a Crimson victory, though, well before the final quarter.


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Bills' QB Is Quite A Fantasy Dream

By Emmett Kistler  • 

Tracking Yahoo! draft trends and staying up-to-date on Michael “PETA Pal” Vick’s injuries have yet to translate into a post-graduate job (big deal) for me, but playing fantasy football did direct my attention to the rise of Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05.


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MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR RUNNER-UP: Lin Gains National Respect in Storied Career

By Emmett Kistler  • 

For almost all Harvard students, résumé-building requires constant effort. Men’s basketball co-captain Jeremy Lin makes it look easy.


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NOTEBOOK: Big Red's Three-Pointers Sink Crimson

By Emmett Kistler  • 

In the end, it was the dominant long-range shooting of Cornell’s Louis Dale and Ryan Wittman that defined the game and denied Harvard the upset.


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NOTEBOOK: Young Guns Power Crimson to Victory

By Emmett Kistler  • 

In need of a win after back-to-back conference losses and forced to overcome a series of injuries to core players, the Crimson had a lot to ask of its young talent on Saturday night.


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Harvard Hangs Tight With No. 13 UConn

By Emmett Kistler  • 

STORRS, CONN—Under head coach Tommy Amaker, the Crimson has had a knack for witnessing success as the underdog. But against No. 13 UConn (6-1) in the school’s Gampel Pavilion yesterday, the Crimson (6-2) could not assert itself over the Huskies and lost a competitive game by a score of 79-73.


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Big Men on Campus

By Emmett Kistler  • 

<p>Injuries kept Pat Magnarelli, Doug Miller, and Andrew Van Nest off the court last year. This season, the trio of big men is back and ready to make up for lost time.</p>


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Crimson Edged by Yale, Shuts Out Brown

By Emmett Kistler  • 

During the two Harvard women’s volleyball games, a record was broken, one contest required overtime, another ended in a shutout, and a German accordion player performed the American national anthem on Saturday night.


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Harvard Lands Top Tight End Recruit, Topping Stanford

By Emmett Kistler  • 

Tight end Blake Barker, the top high school football recruit in Massachusetts, decommitted from the Palo Alto, Calif. school on Oct. 16 and verbally declared his allegiance to the Crimson football ranks.

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Women's Volleyball vs. Princeton

After cruising past Columbia and Cornell in its two previous games, the Harvard womens volleyball team looked to continue its win streak at the Malkin Athletic Center this past weekend. The Crimson (7-10, 3-3 Ivy) split its home games versus two more Ivy League opponents, defeating Princeton (3-12, 1-3), 3-2, on Friday night before falling to Penn (14-4, 5-0) on Saturday, 3-1.

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