The Vatican has invited Jeremy Lin ’10 to join a holy tag-team to take down Lance Armstrong.
The Catholic News Service (CNS) reported Wednesday that the Pontifical Council of Culture hopes to host an international conference with prominent Christian athletic leaders to promote sporting values. Lin and NFL quarterback Tim Tebow are among the Vatican's invitees.
After finishing just one season at the helm of the Harvard field hockey program, head coach Tjerk van Herwaarden has been named the interim head coach for the U.S. women’s national team. The first-year coach will head up the Team USA’s training camp in Chula Vista, CA. Van Herwaarden will oversee the national team as Craig Parnham, the newly appointed women’s national team head coach, takes time to move from his native England to the United States.
With a little less than a minute remaining in the fourth quarter, Linsanity was alive and well once more Wednesday night. Jeremy Lin ’10 had just scored 12 points in six minutes, bringing his Houston Rockets squad back from a double-digit deficit to within one of the Dallas Mavericks. But as Lin’s next shot from the charity stripe missed off the rim, Houston’s efforts fell short as well, and it ultimately lost, 105-100.
Lin’s onslaught in the final period, which made up a large portion of his team’s 15-4 closing run, totaled 74 percent of his points on the night. For the second straight game the Harvard alum shot just under 50 percent from the field while putting up a negative efficiency rating.
While Houston’s backcourt, consisting of Lin and shooting guard James Harden, had recorded an average of 6.74 turnovers per game prior to Wednesday’s contest, the duo almost doubled that number against Dallas. The two combined for 11 mistakes, something that Lin deemed to be a deciding factor in the contest.
“We were a little too nonchalant with our passes,” Lin said. “We tried to force it a couple of times. I had a key turnover down the stretch that was unnecessary.”
Harden echoed Lin’s sentiments, stressing the unnecessarily high level of difficulty that he believed Houston added to the contest.
“You’ve just got to make the easy play,” Harden explained. “We were trying to do a little too much, one extra dribble too much.”
With the loss, Houston’s fifth straight, the Rockets fall to 20-19 on the season, half of a game ahead of the Portland Trail Blazers for the eighth spot in the Western Conference. While Lin’s squad remains in playoff position at the moment, the tightly packed nature of the West means that it may take as little as three more losses to go from eighth to eleventh seed, from battling in the postseason to fighting for a better pick in the draft lottery. Houston heads to Indiana next, where it’ll take on a 24-16 Pacers team that trails the Miami Heat by only two games for the top spot in the East.
With the spring semester already having begun at Dartmouth but around the corner for the rest of the Ancient Eight, The Crimson takes a look at the fall semester for each athletic program and the season that was in each major sport. Next Up, the Dartmouth Big Green.
While most Harvard students will be spending the week before Jan. 28 relaxing before classes begin or wrapping up a J-term project, Emily Hannah will be 3900 miles away from Cambridge, accomplishing a much different goal.
Along with five others women, the freshman Nordic skier was named to the 2013 FIS Junior World Championship team based on results from the past week’s US Cross Country Ski Championships in Soldier Hollow, Utah.
Hannah skied to a second-place finish in the 5-km skate race at the national championships to secure her spot on the Junior World Championship team, a first for any Crimson cross-country skier.
But the honor isn’t completely novel for the Colorado native, who also made the team in 2012 as a J1 (ages 16-17) athlete. At the 2012 Junior Worlds, held in Erzurum, Turkey, Hannah placed 51st in the women’s skiathlon event.
This year, the freshman will again head off to take on the best 18 and 19-year-old skiers in the world—this time in Liberec, Czech Republic, where the 2013 FIS Nordic Junior and U23 World Championships will be held from Jan. 20 to Jan. 27. Over a thousand semi-professional and collegiate Nordic skiers will convene to compete for both individual and team honors.
“Most Harvard students realize how many adjustments you make as a freshman, just going from high school to college, but then as an athlete, you’re also making adjustments to a new coach, a new training plan, new teammates, and that’s a big adjustment, so it’s not unusual in those circumstances to have an athlete take a year just to get used to skiing at the college level,” Nordic coach Chris City said. “I think it says so many things about Emily’s focus and determination to be able to manage all of those things and still be able to ski at this level. I’m excited to see what she can do on her second trip to World Juniors with a little more familiarity with the racing environment expectations.”
