This weekend is Halloween, but that is not the only scary thing on the horizon for Crimson Athletics. As fall seasons wrap up and teams make their final pushes for playoff bids, some of the season’s highest-stakes games start this Friday. The pressure is on. Football (6–0) On Friday at 7 p.m., the Crimson plays […]
Professional sports rest on a fairly simple idea: the best athletes win. We celebrate record-breaking performances, championship titles, and the seemingly superhuman abilities of the world’s greatest competitors. But every once in a while, an athlete accomplishes something that makes winning feel almost secondary. What happens when the very people we once considered unstoppable can […]
A five-second video has broken the internet. In the third quarter of the Oct. 17 Duke-UNC game, redshirt junior DeShawn Stone lay motionless on the turf after an injury, as his teammates surrounded him. A female member of Duke’s training staff, Grace Dietrich, ran onto the field to assist Stone. She placed her hand on […]
Flames, shattered windows, and riot police have dominated the media coverage of the recent protests sweeping France, particularly Paris. These acts have given the movement the unsavory but headline-grabbing label: riot. It is understandable why the media condemns, but pushes, videos of shops being looted, cars burning, and Paris seemingly in shambles. The coverage reinforces […]
As we near the end of the regular fall sporting season, highlight reels will play, and hype will build for each game’s victors. But scores, plays, and players cannot determine the true winner—who watches the game just to watch the game? No, the only real measure of victory is intimidation. But ritualistic chanting, synchronized dress, […]
On Oct. 26, Harvard Kennedy School’s John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum hosted actor Keri Russell, showrunner Debora Cahn, and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power to discuss the creation of the television show “The Diplomat.” Titled “The Diplomat: On Screen and in the World” and moderated by Shorenstein Center Director Nancy Gibbs, […]
On Sunday night, Oct. 25, the Kirkland House fire alarm rang, forcing undergraduates to evacuate their dorms. According to an email sent to Kirkland residents, a steam valve malfunction in the kitchen shared with Eliot House, which is currently undergoing renovations, triggered the alarm. Most residents could not reenter their dorms until the fire department […]