Athletics

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

What Does the $2.8B NCAA Settlement Mean for Harvard?

Athlete-payment case will change little for Ivy League athletes.

by Max J. Krupnick

Harvard football rolls out a formidable early season

Formidable early-season football

by Dick Friedman

Allston science center unveiled, online learning, faculty awards, and more

University news briefs: retaining recruits, online learning, appointments, awards, and more

Tim Murphy is Harvard’s greatest football coach

Harvard’s greatest football coach—and one of the best anywhere

by Dick Friedman

Harvard puts Cornell away, 40-3, and is 2-0 in Ivy play

A semblance of a competitive game becomes a rout.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard football 2015: the Crimson scores 45, Georgetown 0

With a seventeenth-straight victory, coach Tim Murphy announces, “The preseason is over.”

by Dick Friedman

Harvard football 2015: the Crimson trounces Brown, 53-27

The Crimson’s first Ivy contest proved “one of those days when we got on a roll.”

by Dick Friedman

Harvard beats Rhode Island, 41-10, in football opener

The Crimson dispatched the gritty but overmatched Rams in its season opener.

by Dick Friedman

Harvard's fall-semester agenda

Freshman convocation, Morning Prayers, and pending news on the University's agenda as the academic year begins

by John S. Rosenberg

How Jim Connor got to Harvard, and Isadore Zarakov’s home run

How Jim Connor got to Harvard, and Isadore Zarakov’s home run

Retired figure skater Christina Gao reflects on her career

Now retired, the world-class figure skater looks back.

by Zara Zhang