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Matt Gibson, Yale Senior, Point Lookout, N.Y., attackman Gibson powered the Bulldogs to their first NCAA tournament appearance since 1992 by leading them to the Ivy League tournament title. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound attackman racked up 14 points in victories over Cornell and Princeton in the tournament. Gibson recorded eight assists in Yale's 14-10 defeat of the Big Red in the semifinals, which tied the single-game school record for assists set by Jason O'Neill in 1990.

ESPN analyst Mark Dixon was in the network's studio in Charlotte providing his perspective on each of the four games in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals this past weekend, and he will do the same this Saturday before appearing in person at Monday's title game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. The former Blue Jays midfielder, who can be followed on Twitter @Dixonlacrosse, discussed the most intriguing game of the quarterfinal round, top-seeded Syracuse's 7-6 decision against Yale, and his thoughts on the Final Four.

While the lock on Supreme Court nominees by Harvard and Yale is to be deplored ("A supremely limited pool of high court candidates," May 16), it will be hard to break. For over 130 years there was not a Jewish justice on the Supreme Court and very few Catholic ones. However if Elena Kagan is confirmed, there will be six Catholic justices and three Jewish ones. For many years the WASP establishment controlled our government, and now that is a scenario of the past. For about the same time, entry into elite universities was restricted for minorities, and this too has changed.

Dylan Donahue scored just one goal, but it might have been the most important one of the season for the Syracuse men's lacrosse team. The redshirt freshman attackman converted a feed from senior midfielder JoJo Marasco with 13 seconds left in the fourth quarter to help the top-seeded Orange escape past Yale, 7-6, in an NCAA tournament quarterfinal before an announced 3,939 at Byrd Stadium on Saturday. Syracuse, which has captured more Division I national championships (10) than any other program, improved to 15-3.

Yale won the first meeting in 1925. Since then, however, the series has been dominated by Maryland, which has captured the last nine contests - including the last five in College Park. The No. 14 Bulldogs (8-3) are enjoying a five-game winning streak during which they've won two in overtime and one by two goals. Senior attackman Kirby Zdrill entered the week leading Division I in shooting percentage (61.8 percent) and is third on the team in goals (22). The No. 6 Terps (8-2) have cooled off since beginning the season with six consecutive wins, splitting their last four contests.

No. 19 Yale (9-4) vs. No. 14 Cornell (9-3) Friday, 5 p.m. Outlook: This semifinal in the Ivy League tournament, hosted by Princeton, is a rematch of the March 17 meeting in which the Big Red outlasted the Bulldogs, 8-7. At that time, Cornell was thought to be a lock for the NCAA tournament. But with back-to-back losses to Brown and Princeton, the Big Red - the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament - might need to win the tourney to guarantee a berth in the NCAA tournament.

Yale's recent success - an 8-2 record and the No. 14 spot in The Sun's rankings - should not be that shocking considering that the program earned a share of the Ivy League regular-season championship in 2010 and captured the conference tournament last year to advance to the NCAA tournament. The Bulldogs' emergence is certainly not a surprise to Maryland coach John Tillman, who occupied the same position at Harvard - an Ivy League rival of Yale's - from 2008 to 2010. Tillman, whose No. 6 Terps (8-2)

BOSTON -- In a highly unusual gesture in an era when even prestigious Ivy League institutions are counting pennies, Yale University said yesterday it would return a $20 million gift to Texas financier and Yale alumnus Lee M. Bass.The announcement followed a series of articles in the Wall Street Journal capped by a scathing editorial yesterday that lambasted the Connecticut university for failing to implement a Western civilization curriculum mandated in the 1991 donation from Mr. Bass, a 1979 Yale graduate.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A Yale University sophomore from Maryland was killed during an apparent robbery attempt on a quiet street near the center of campus early yesterday, police said.The student, Christian H. Prince, 19, of Chevy Chase, died of a single gunshot wound to the chest shortly before 1:15 a.m., said Cmdr. J. Thomas Butler of the New Haven police.He was apparently walking from a party to his off-campus apartmentwhen he was attacked on Hillhouse Street, a well-lighted, two-lane road which is lined with Yale buildings.

Yalies have been in the forefront of the political scene in recent days, with George W. Bush ('68), Joseph Lieberman ('64) and Dick Cheney ('63) on the ballot. And today, another facet of the university will be showcased, with alumni participating in a bicoastal celebration of the 100th year of the undergraduate Yale Dramatic Association and the 75th year of the Yale School of Drama. The gala event, "Stage Blue," for which Jodie Foster, Meryl Streep and Sam Waterston are honorary chairs, will occur simultaneously at Manhattan's New Amsterdam Theater in New York and the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California with events in each city broadcast via satellite to the other location.

Yale goalie Eric Natale doesn't want his dream to become a nightmare. During most of his childhood days while playing for the Gamber recreation program in Westminster, he dreamed of playing in a NCAA Division I tournament game against one of the top teams in the country. He gets to live that out at 3 p.m. Saturday at Byrd Stadium when unseeded Yale (12-4) plays No. 1 Syracuse (14-3) in the NCAA Division I lacrosse quarterfinals. When it comes to offense, there are few teams that can match the Orange, which has five players with more than 30 points - midfielders JoJo Marasco (19, goals, 36 assists)

Down 7-3 in the fourth quarter, No. 2 Notre Dame put together a 6-0 rally to edge upset-minded Detroit in an NCAA tournament first-round game Saturday, 9-7. Matt Kavanagh, who scored four second-half goals, tied the game at 7 with 10:10 left and then put the Irish (11-4) ahead for good with less than six minutes remaining. The Titans (5-10) were able to keep Notre Dame in check during the first half as Detroit took a 5-1 lead into halftime. Brandon Beauregard led the Titans with three goals.

No. 14 Yale broke a 6-6 tie with five straight goals in the third quarter to defeat No. 12 Princeton, 12-8, in the Ivy League men's lacrosse tournament championship Sunday afternoon at Cornell. The Bulldogs (11-4) beat the Tigers (9-6) in the title game for the second straight year and earned the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament field of 16. Nine Bulldogs scored in the contest. Yale's Dylan Levings, who won 19 of 23 faceoffs, was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

No. 13 Johns Hopkins wrapped up the regular season with a 9-4 victory over Army Friday night and improved to 9-5. But the program's hopes for a 42nd consecutive NCAA tournament  appearance absorbed another sustained hit that same night. No. 2 Cornell was upended, 14-13, in overtime by No. 12 Princeton in one semifinal of the Ivy League tournament at Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y. The Tigers (9-5) will meet No. 14 Yale (10-4) in Sunday's title game after the Bulldogs defeated No. 18 Penn.

Niko Amato had enjoyed solid outings this season, including a 13-save display in Maryland's 12-10 redemption win against reigning national champion Loyola on Feb. 23 and double-digit stops in four of his previous contests. But in the No. 6 Terps' 8-7 victory over No. 14 Yale on Saturday, Amato may have been at his best. He finished with a career-best 24 saves, which is the most by a Division I goalkeeper in a win this season. (Rutgers freshman Kris Alleyne and Michigan freshman Gerald Logan each made 25 stops, but they both suffered losses.)

Niko Amato tried his best to downplay the importance of No. 6 Maryland's 8-7 decision against No. 14 Yale at Byrd Stadium in College Park on Saturday. But even the redshirt junior goalkeeper acknowledged that the Terps may have been fortunate to emerge with the victory. “It's just another steppingstone for us,” he began. “Yale's a Top 10 team and a really good opponent, and we haven't really seen much of them before this year. I thought we could've played better and to come out with a win is always good when you didn't play your best game.” Maryland should have plenty of material to review this week as the team prepares to meet No. 19 Virginia in one semifinal of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

Uproarious, moving and thrilling, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, the account of an epochal football game played amid the turbulence of 1968, is an unexpected feat of documentary storytelling. Without grabbing you by the face mask, it rivets your attention within minutes, and maybe even before - the title alone, from a Harvard Crimson headline, sums up the tale's unique and paradoxical glory. The movie builds with an inexorable, pleasurable pull to the game's final two minutes. They become a cinematic as well as an athletic miracle.

A 24-year-old man was found shot to death yesterday in Southwest Baltimore, according to police.Howard Martin of the 300 block of South Augusta Avenue was shot several times in the 4300 block of Parkton Street, police said.Mr. Martin stumbled to an apartment building in the 400 block of Yale Avenue, where he collapsed and died, they said.Police said they found a small bag of suspected rock cocaine next to the victim. They have no suspects.A total of 284 people have been slain in Baltimore this year, one more than for this time last year.

Yale won the first meeting in 1925. Since then, however, the series has been dominated by Maryland, which has captured the last nine contests - including the last five in College Park. The No. 14 Bulldogs (8-3) are enjoying a five-game winning streak during which they've won two in overtime and one by two goals. Senior attackman Kirby Zdrill entered the week leading Division I in shooting percentage (61.8 percent) and is third on the team in goals (22). The No. 6 Terps (8-2) have cooled off since beginning the season with six consecutive wins, splitting their last four contests.

Mike Chanenchuk and Niko Amato saved the Maryland men's lacrosse team from what might have been a devastating blow. Chanenchuk scored the game-winning goal with 13 seconds left in regulation, and Amato turned aside a last-second shot to propel the No. 6 Terps to an 8-7 victory over No. 14 Yale before an announced crowd of 3,052 at Byrd Stadium on Saturday. Maryland (9-2) has won 10 straight against the Bulldogs, but more importantly, the Terps avoided a loss that would have been their second in a row and third in the past five games - a stretch that would have damaged their resume for the NCAA tournament.