For diehard baseball fans, the stretch of time between the World Series and spring training is a veritable sports wasteland. Sure, there’s some football, a little basketball, maybe some hockey here and there, but none of it compares to America’s Pastime.
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.
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While the Harvard men’s volleyball team hopes to be alive in the EIVA playoffs long enough to still be playing in May, the team’s head coach Brian Baise already knows that he will be coaching in May.
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Who knew that just a few games of soccer could help save hundreds of lives?
Tomorrow the Harvard men’s club soccer team will be hosting the “Kick Out Malaria” Tournament for the second year in a row. The competition will feature matches between the men’s club teams from Harvard, Boston College, Brown, and Northeastern in the hopes of raising money to prevent malaria in Sierra Leone.
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Although the impending expansion of the NCAA Tournament from 65 to 96 teams has been hotly contested, it would likely help Harvard qualify for March Madness for the first time since its last appearance in 1945.
With the unfortunate conclusion of one NCAA basketball tournament, questions about next year’s and the preceding years’ tournaments have arisen—namely, the potential expansion of the tournament from its current format of 65 invitees to a possible 96. As Crimson staff writer Jake I. Fisher argues in his column Choosy Moms Choose JIF, this 31-team expansion may offer the opportunity for more mid-level, underrated, or undiscovered teams—such as 2010 runner-up Butler, Sweet Sixteen Cinderella Cornell, or, dare we say it, Harvard—to reach the big dance.
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Northfield Mount Hermon big man Majok Majok will not be coming to Harvard, but the Crimson's recruiting class may not yet be complete.
In a web interview March 29, the 6'8 Majok said he would make a decision "in like 2 weeks, i think." He stated his final choice of schools would be among Oklahoma, St. Louis, Oregon State, and Boston College.
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