When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When life gave defensive back Xaden Benson ’28 a lemon (aka a Nor’easter) this past Friday, he caught three interceptions that helped secure Harvard’s 14-10 victory over Brown. A performance I would certainly call making lemonade. While some braved the torrential downpour and crowded Amtrak trains to […]
It was a Thursday afternoon. Perhaps the only cold thing that day was the bead of sweat tracing the groove of my spine as I tried to position a worn-down copy of “1984” to shield my face from the sun. New Mexico’s swelteringly hot summer afternoons, such as this one, are practically unbearable. Even the […]
Long before his first step on the field at Harvard Stadium, Jacob Rizy ’23 already had the National Football League in mind. In fact, it has shaped his decision-making since the very conception of his athletic career. During his high school recruitment process, Harvard’s football program stood out as an offer that could help him […]
To outsiders, it is not unrealistic to draw comparisons between Boston’s sports pandemonium and a herd mentality. Any outing on the Red Line can easily be transformed into a riveting game of counting how many toddlers in Red Sox paraphernalia or grown men in Bruins jerseys you can spot during the work week. To the […]
All college athletes eventually come to face one of the biggest dilemmas in modern publicity—the retirement post. How does one sum up four years of hard work and camaraderie into a singular post without suggesting that they tie all life’s meaning to their athletic career or have “peaked?” Even the Oscar-winning short film that marked […]
Do you ever get the feeling that Harvard students live double lives? Well, you wouldn’t be far off—most of them do. Kirkland senior, Maggie Chiapetta-Uberti ’26, is no exception. When she isn’t rehearsing with the Harvard Opportunes, Chiapetta-Uberti advocates for Alzheimer’s awareness by sharing her mother’s journey on social media. As part of her advocacy, […]
A cold wind cuts across your nose as you skate down the ice. The colors of the audience—red, white, blue—blur into a muted shade of purple as your heartbeat makes its presence known in your throat. In what feels like the blink of an eye, you look down. Gloves and helmets are scattered across the […]
It finally happened! What, you might ask? Bekuo Uzo-Menkiti ’28 had absolutely no excuse to skip the basketball game. I had been trying to convince her to go with me for months! Genuinely, months! The first thing you should know about Bekuo is that she is, if nothing else, busy. When she turns my invitation […]
Jan. 26, 2026 I called my grandparents this morning, as I have done every Sunday since I moved away from Las Cruces, New Mexico. The conversation flowed as it usually does. First, they ask about my academics. Secondly, we fall into a brief digression on the tribulations of the pecan tree harvest, as my Grandpa […]
Let’s face the facts: Harvard rarely makes national headlines for its sports culture. Aside from the one obvious exception—“The Game”—realistically, the average Harvard student would seldom find themselves on the other side of the Charles River. However, that does not mean Harvard College lacks a sports culture entirely. For Harvard sports enthusiasts, even if they […]
