On Tuesday, Jeff Bridich’00 and tricaptain of the 2000 baseball team was named the third general manager in Colorado Rockies’ team history. The move came after Dan O’Dowd, the team’s general manager since 1999, and Bill Geivett, the team’s senior vice president, resigned following Colorado’s disappointing 2014 campaign.

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Members of the United States men’s national soccer team practiced at Ohiri Field on Monday in the first of three days of training at Harvard’s facilities. The team will hold practices at 4:00 on both Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon before it heads to Hartford, Conn. for an exhibition match Friday against Ecuador.

Twelve players, including forward Jozy Altidore, midfielder Julian Greene, and defender Omar Gonzalez, participated in light drills for a little over an hour. Focusing on ball-handling and footwork, the players performed a keep-away drill and then played a five-on-five half-field game. Goalkeepers Brad Guzan and Nick Rimando went through a series of reflex drills on the other half of the field before joining the team for the five-on-five scrimmage.

The Harvard men’s and women’s varsity and club soccer teams were among the only spectators allowed into the complex to watch the closed practice.

Tonight, eight of the remaining players on the full 21-man squad, including defender John Brooks, midfielder Alejandro Bedoya, and defender DeAndre Yedlin will join the team at its Boston hotel.

Forward Landon Donovan will join the team on Thursday. This will be the former national team star’s first appearance for the team since being controversially left off the World Cup roster in May and it will mark his final appearance in a USMNT jersey. Donovan is first in U.S. history in goals (57), assists (58), and World Cup goals (five).

Among the team’s stars who will neither be participating in practices nor competing in the exhibition are forward Clint Dempsey and goalkeeper Tim Howard, who is taking a year-long absence from the team.

The last time the Harvard men’s basketball team took the floor, it was to play in the third round of March Madness. On Oct. 17, the “madness” will move to Lavietes Pavilion, as the squad begins the 2014-2015 season with its fourth-annual “Crimson Madness” festivities.

The event will be modeled after the NBA’s All-Star Weekend, with a dunk contest and a three-point shootout leading up to the evening’s marquee event, the Crimson and Black inter-squad scrimmage. The entirety of the night will be broadcast live on ESPN3.

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Though men's soccer's Andrew Chang netted Athlete of the Week honors this week, here were some other performances that garner recognition.

Fischer had a career game in the Crimson’s Ivy League opener against Brown on Saturday. The junior scored his first touchdown of the season with 2:11 left in the opening quarter. 

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After scoring three goals in sixteen minutes to take out Northeastern on Tuesday, the Harvard men’s soccer team (4-3-0) is riding high. The Crimson has scored 10 goals in four games heading into its game against UMass (1-5-0) on Friday, looking to take out its third in-state rival in less than two weeks. The Back Page previews the matchup below.

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