Sports & Athletics
Coverage of Crimson 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
Murphy Time
Harvard’s greatest football coach—and one of the best anywhere
by Dick Friedman
Football: Harvard 40, Cornell 3
A semblance of a competitive game becomes a rout.
by Dick Friedman
Football: Harvard 45, Georgetown 0
With a seventeenth-straight victory, coach Tim Murphy announces, “The preseason is over.”
by Dick Friedman
Football: Harvard 53, Brown 27
The Crimson’s first Ivy contest proved “one of those days when we got on a roll.”
by Dick Friedman
Football: Harvard 41, Rhode Island 10
The Crimson dispatched the gritty but overmatched Rams in its season opener.
by Dick Friedman
The Semester Begins
Freshman convocation, Morning Prayers, and pending news on the University's agenda as the academic year begins
by John S. Rosenberg
Thrills, Baseball & Other
How Jim Connor got to Harvard, and Isadore Zarakov’s home run
Christina Gao: No Regrets
Now retired, the world-class figure skater looks back.
by Zara Zhang
“Foot, Ball, Goal”
On scoring in a low-scoring game
by David L. Tannenwald
A Fiscal Faustian Bargain
An economic analyst of sports dissects the assumptions behind Boston's bid for the 2024 Olympics.
by Andrew Zimbalist