If you want to see sports in person this weekend, you're probably going to end up doing a little travelling. All of Harvard's teams are playing away, and the World Series isn't making an encore performance in Beantown.
Most of Harvard's teams will be playing in the backwoods of New Hampshire in a small town called Hanover. If you want to catch all the action, you're going to have to miss Fine Arts 13 and the Winthrop happy hour.
The weekend encounter in Hanover begins Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m., when the preliminary gridiron contents commence. Both freshmen and the J.V. teams will play their counterparts from Dartmouth.
A half hour later, the Harvard harriers will tangle with the Big Green. At 3:30 p.m., the J.V. runners will lock horns.
But most of the big events will take place Saturday. The sports day is kicked off by the Harvard soccer and Radeliffe field hockey teams, which face off with their Dartmouth opponents at 11 a.m. At the same time, there will also be a freshman soccer match and a J.V. field hockey game.
Sometime that afternoon, 1:30 p.m. to be precise. Darthmouth will get its chance to avenge last year's loss to the Crimson. If Harvard's lucky, it won't rain on Memorial Field, and another Cornell fiasco won't develop.
If you're confined to the Cambridge area this weekend, you can watch the first game of the World Series, which will be played in the back waters of a quaint Ohio community. Red Sox fans will be hoping for a subway series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Kansas City Royals. Anything to get the Yankees out of the picture. The second game of the series will be played Sunday, after which the Reds should hold a 2-0 lead.
One of the biggest crew events of the year will come off Sunday. The annual Head of the Charles regatta, which draws boats from throughout the country, will run all day, with men's, women's, and coed included in the day-long event.
For professional sports afficionados, the New England Patriots will return into their Foxboro home Monday night to face the New York Jets. If you can't make it out to Schaefer Stadium, you can listen to Howard Cosell and whoever else is helping him now. But if you're smart, you'll turn down the sound on your television, and turn up Gil Santos and Gino Cappiletti on WBZ-radio. For you gamblers, the Pats are a 14-point favorite.
