It didn't take very long for former Harvard hockey star Louis Leblanc to make his mark in the NHL.
Eight games into his professional career with the Montreal Canadiens, Leblanc scored his first goal in hockey's top league in front of a supportive home crowd Thursday night. Montreal lost to the Flyers, 4-3.
Leblanc, who made his debut for the Canadiens Nov. 30, knocked in a deflection at 13:24 in the second period to tie the game at 2-2. Though the crowd of 21,273 proceeded to give him a standing ovation, the fourth-liner played only 49 seconds in the third period.
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One week after landing in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll and the Associated Press Top 25 poll for the first time in school history, Harvard men's basketball narrowly missed another week-long stay in the national rankings Monday.
The Crimson (9-1) received 73 points in the AP poll and 43 points in the coaches poll to fall to the first in the Others receiving votes category—essentially No. 26.
Harvard lost to No. 9/10 UConn (8-1) on Thursday before walloping Boston University on Saturday.
After being released by the Golden State Warriors Friday, Jeremy Lin '10 has been picked up off waivers by the Houston Rockets, ESPN's Marc Stein first reported Sunday evening.
"[E]njoyed my time with golden state...excited to be a houston rocket! thank you to all my fans who supported me the past year!!" tweeted Lin, who joins point guards Goran Dragic, Jonny Flynn, and starter Kyle Lowry on the Houston roster.
By almost any metric, the 2011 Harvard football program had a historic campaign. Coach Tim Murphy became the winningest football coach in Crimson history. And nearly every week it seemed, the squad matched or broke some ancient offensive record.
Once it was all set and done, Harvard had scored 374 total points—breaking a modern-era record set by the juggernaut 2004 team—en route to a 9-1 overall record and a league title. After a shaky early-season loss to Holy Cross, no other team came close to topping the Crimson.
But Harvard really shined in conference play, going an unscathed 7-0. The Crimson’s smallest margin of victory was a healthy 10 points, which came in a 41-31 win over Cornell.
But even then, the contest wasn’t as close as the score made it seem. Down by 17 with two minutes to go, Cornell quarterback Jeff Mathews and Co. found the end zone with 1:32 left on the clock to narrow the gap to 10. But the game was already well out of reach by that point.
The team’s historic performance leads to the question: had any Harvard squad dominated the Ancient Eight quite so effectively as the 2011 version?
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The Golden State Warriors announced Friday that Jeremy Lin '10 has been waived by the team.
After signing a multiple-year contract with the team in July of last year, the second-year guard appeared in 29 games for the Warriors as a rookie in 2010-11, averaging 2.6 points, 1.2 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game.
He also made 20 appearances for the Reno Bighorns of the NBA Development League, averaging 18.0 points, 5.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game.
On the first day of NBA training camp, Lin—due to make nearly $800,000 this year—was pulled from practice and told he was let go.
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