Students we interviewed reported that “Bulldog” football is a key component of autumn on the Yale University campus, and the Harvard-Yale rivalry (known as “The Game”) is considered one of the most important face-offs on each season’s schedule. Since 1875, The Game has been played nearly every November at the end of the football season. Because the event alternates between the Harvard and Yale venues each year, SOM students will have the opportunity to attend The Game at the Yale Bowl at least once during their time at the school. However, given the two schools’ proximity to each other, we expect that travelling to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to attend The Game at Harvard is worth considering.

Graduate students pay student pricing for most athletic events and sit in the student section. The Yale Bowl is only about a mile and a half from campus, and students often walk to the event together in “caravans” after tailgating in the parking lot. The Game brings both the universities and their business schools together. One second-year

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South Kingstown will start its quest for its 14th consecutive Division I boys tennis championship Tuesday with a home math against perennial contender Bishop Hendricken.

Coach Andy Carr does not talk about the winning streak with his players.

“We’ll try to get better in South County. Hopefully that will be good enough to carry us to Slater Park at the end of May,” he said.

In other spring sports getting underway, Bishop Hendricken is going for a three-peat in volleyball and repeat in lacrosse, and Chariho is tryig to win its second consecutive outdoor track.title.

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In the third quarter of the 2012 4A state girls championship game, Mercedes Riggs dribbled to the right side, crossed over, stepped back, and drilled a 3-pointer to give Timpanogos a late 13-point lead over Springville.

It was, her father said, the defining image of his daughter’s high school basketball career.

“That and the look of determination she had,” Bill Riggs said. “You could tell she was not going to be denied, and she played that way.”

It’s also one of a multitude of reasons why the Daily Herald has named Mercedes Riggs as the 2012 Valley Player of the Year for girls basketball.

The senior guard’s success might not have happened at all were it not for a decision made during her freshman year.

Riggs found herself torn between basketball and the martial arts. She had already invested much of her life in both, having played club basketball up to that point while also earning a first-degree black belt in taekwondo.

Her mother, Anita, was convinced at one point that Mercedes would break away from the hardcourt tradition established by her mother and followed by her three older sisters.

“We knew that she had the talent and the work ethic [for basketball],” Anita said. “It was going to

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Kandell Scruggs (from left) emergency medical technology instructor, demonstrates a technique to students Macy Kramer and Matthew Buckley during lab at TSTC Friday. The TSTC paramedic program recently earned national accreditation. Nellie Doneva/Reporter-News

Texas State Technical College-West Texas is the first school in West Texas to earn a critical accreditation.

Officials were notified in early March that the school had earned accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs for its emergency medical technician-paramedic program. According to recently approved rules, such accreditation must be in place by Jan. 1, 2013.

Failure to receive the accreditation would have forced termination of the paramedic program, said Andy Weaver, program director for the Emergency Medical Services program at TSTC.

Current students would have been allowed to complete the program, but new students would not be allowed to enroll.

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It was announced today that the Minnesota Wild have signed University of Denver sophomore Jason Zucker to an entry level contract. Zucker’s signing was pretty much a foregone conclusion after the Wild made it quite clear that signing him was a top priority this summer.

In other signing news:

It’s not an early departure, but the Washington Capitals signed Miami graduating senior defenseman Cameron Schilling to a free agent contract. Schilling put together an incredibly solid career at Miami, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see him playing for the Caps sometime in the future.

Western Michigan defenseman Dan DeKeyser was considered one of the top free agents in college hockey, but announced yesterday that he would be returning to Kalamazoo for another season.

Minnesota-Duluth’s JT Brown is another top free agent prospect drawing interest from nearly every NHL team and has reportedly trimmed his list of teams he’s looking at to Boston, Philadelphia, and Tampa Bay.

Led by three individual victories from Jennifer Cannon the Tennessee High girls took second place in a field of 23 teams Saturday at the Hardin Valley Invitational.

Cannon tied her own school record with a time of 14.32 seconds in her win in the 100 hurdles.

Sierra White and Ashlee Mitchell also picked up victories for the Vikings.

HardinValleywon the girls team competition with 91 points, 13 ahead of Tennessee High.

The Tennessee High boys finished in a tie for 12^th with 12 points.

Avery Hall placed third in the 400 for the highest individual finish among the THS boys.

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Team Scores

BOYS

Bearden 97, Dobyns-Bennett 76.3, Maryville 58, Hardin Valley 52, LaVergne 49.3, Knox West 40, Sevier County 35, Powell 35, William Blount 28, Fulton 25, Oak Ridge 24, South Doyle 23, Tennessee High 23, Webb School 17.5, Gatlinburg-Pittman 17, Knoxville Catholic 16, Cumberland Gap 16, Campbell County 13, Knox Halls 12, Daniel Boone 12, Cumberland County 9.3, Farragut 9, Cookeville 7, Austin-East 4, Knoxville Central 3, Heritage 0.5

GIRLS

Hardin Valley 91, Tennessee High 78, Knox West 77.5, Dobyns-Bennett 70.5, Maryville 49, Campbell County 45, Austin-East 43, Bearden 38, Knoxville Catholic 36, LaVergne 26, William Blount 20.5, CAK 19, Sevier County 18, Fulton 17, Pigeon Forge 15, Heritage 12.5, Webb School 12, Farragut 11, South Doyle 6, Powell 5, Knox Halls 5, Cumberland County 3, Oak Ridge 2, Daniel Boone 2

Individual Results

BOYS

100 meters – Malik Foreman , 10.69; 8. J

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