Playoff season is finally here! This week, Harvard’s fall teams begin their postseason games. Meanwhile, other sports are facing historic rivals, wrapping up their regular season, or just making their debuts. Football (6–1) This Saturday is football’s final home game of the season at Harvard Stadium. At 1 p.m., they’ll kick off against Columbia. After […]
“What’s your body count?” It is a question that seems to circulate casually (and crassly) among modern generations. Its meaning: “How many different people have you had sex with?” The question implies a transactional, impersonal maneuvering through sex, reducing a partner to the noun of a “body.” More importantly, it raises the question: why does […]
Every two years, the world’s greatest athletes gather to test the limits of the human body. These people have spent years preparing for the most competitive stage. Some events are so popular that even non-sports connoisseurs can recognize them. Others are so obscure that it seems like only a handful of athletes actually know the […]
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, […]
As the second month of school wraps up, Harvard’s fall sports are moving from packed schedules to morning lifts and the occasional matchup. For many fall sports, this is the last week of regular-season play before conference playoffs. Meanwhile, winter sports are finishing their preseasons and starting their first games. With parents and families on […]
Cultural events take different forms worldwide, creating a shared bond that remains unique to each people. Coming-of-age celebrations have distinct names and customs across Jewish, Latin American, and Māori communities, but the core idea stays the same. Harvest festivals in the United States, Canada, and India vary in practice, but they celebrate similar themes. Sporting […]