Athletics

Coverage of the Harvard sports and athletics—from team achievements to individual standout stories.

Garber to Serve as Harvard President Beyond 2027

A once-interim appointment will now continue indefinitely.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard basketball: a midseason report

Entering Ivy League play, Harvard men's basketball seeks momentum.

by David L. Tannenwald

Harvard football 2017 season wrap-up

A humbling defeat in The Game caps Harvard’s dreariest season in 17 years.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard swimmer Dean Farris builds on his breakout rookie season

No longer a “skinny kid,” swimmer Dean Farris ’20 builds on his breakout rookie season.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Newport’s winter activities

Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard basketball: an early season report

Harvard men’s basketball has a way to go.  

by David L. Tannenwald

Crimson Football 2017: Harvard 3, Yale 24

You can’t win if you can’t score.

by Dick Friedman

Crimson Football 2017: Harvard 6, Penn 23

A drubbing by Penn knocks the Crimson out of the title race.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard basketball teams preview

Previewing the 2017-2018 Harvard basketball season  

by David L. Tannenwald

Football 2017: Harvard 25, Dartmouth 22

When you're down 14-0, “it's all heart.”