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Vanderbilt defeats Harvard, 79-70, in 'Brain Bowl'
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Once the ball went up, all that work in the classroom didn't mean a thing. Except for a late, desperate rally, the Ivy League's best wasn't much of a match for the only private school in the Southeastern Conference. John...Tags: Princeton Tigers, Harvard Crimson, National Collegiate Athletic Association, John Calipari, Basketball
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Kentucky, Michigan State, Syracuse and UNC earn top NCAA seedings
So much for entering the NCAA tournament on a roll. Three teams that lost in their conferences tournaments earned top seedings when the 68-team bracket was announced Sunday on CBS.
This year's top seedings are Kentucky (South), Syracuse (East), North...Tags: Harvard Crimson, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Washington Huskies, Syracuse Orange, College Sports
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Obama's NCAA bracket picks show some love for swing states
President Obama gave ESPN the basketball thinking behind his March Madness bracket picks this year, but as the NCAA tournament cranks up in earnest today, a more political analysis shows that he didn’t forget it’s an election year: Of Obama&...Tags: Cincinnati Bearcats, College Basketball, Republican Party, Wisconsin Badgers, Villanova Wildcats
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Joe Paterno dies at 85; transformed Penn State into football power
During a six-decade career, Joe Paterno transformed sleepy Penn State University into a national football power, creating a legacy that no one thought could be beaten — or tarnished. But the Ivy League-educated coach who demanded that his players...Tags: Jerry Sandusky, World War II (1939-1945), Brown University, Courtney Brown, Rose Bowl Game
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PASSINGS: Joe Restic, Lenny Lyles
Joe Restic
Longtime Harvard football coach
Joe Restic, 85, who won or tied for five Ivy League football championships during 23 years as coach at Harvard University, died Thursday at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, the university announced. The...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Philadelphia Eagles, Canadian Football, College Sports, National Football League
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PASSINGS: Dave Gavitt, Wilma Lee Cooper, James Speed, James N. Rosenau, Yuli Ofer, Kurt Ziebart
Dave Gavitt
Coach led organization
of Big East Conference
Dave Gavitt, 73, one of basketball's most influential leaders in the last three decades, died Friday in a hospital near his hometown of Rumford, R.I., after a long illness, his family said....Tags: World War II (1939-1945), The Ohio State University, College Baseball, Princeton University, U.S. Army
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Two towns merge into new one -- Princeton, N.J. -- to save costs
Nation NowPrinceton merger: To save costs, two New Jersey municipalities -- Princeton Township and Princeton Burough -- voted Tuesday to merge into a united community called Princeton.... -
Football: Eamon McOsker had a season to remember
Varsity Times InsiderFootball, turkey and Notre Dame. Those are the usual topics of discussion when more than 30 members of the McOsker family gather for Thanksgiving in San Pedro. They’re thoroughly Irish, from rooting for their beloved university in South Bend, Ind.,.... -
Football: San Clemente lineman is headed to Ivy League
Varsity Times InsiderSan Clemente offensive lineman Andrew Strange, a 6-foot-6, 260-pound senior, has committed to Harvard. San Clemente is off to a 3-0 start. The Tritons also also have a promising 6-7, 270-pound junior tackle in Kyle Murphy. -- Eric Sondheimer... -
L.A. Unheard: The Smiles
Brand XThe band: The Smiles, a so-called "beach rock" quartet of still-in-school USC students ("We'll see how long that lasts us," co-songwriter Will Sturgeon said) who banded together after class last year -- and not to be confused with the U.K. act The Smiles,... -
New York Fashion Week: Hilfiger goes over the hedge
All The RageTommy Hilfiger's last runway show here symbolically and nostalgically closed out New York Fashion Week's run at Bryant Park, and his spring-summer 2011 mens' and women's collections, presented on the runways at Lincoln Center on Sunday night was another... -
Enforcer Westgarth a nice tough guy
The Fabulous ForumOff the ice, hockey enforcers tend to be among the most articulate and interesting people you’ll ever meet. Kevin Westgarth, who will replace Raitis Ivanans as the Kings’ resident tough guy, is a Princeton graduate with a degree in psychology.......
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