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• Tell Me Rowers
  Tell me rowers eight and strong, why do you pull the boat along?

• Best Lesson I Ever Had!
  

• Christening of the Charlie Grimes
  Comments from David H. Wight of the 1956 Olympic Crew

• Note to the Rowing Community from John and Phoebe Murphy
  

• Orange and Maroon Effect Day at SIRA's
  

• Misty Morning
  ...a boat gliding across the water, the movement of the crew reduced by the fog. A boat of the dead, the Flying Dutchmen of Townlake.

• Eight Tough Minutes: Lindsay Meyer
  US JW1x bronze medalist Lindsay Meyer's account of her Jr. Worlds semifinal; in 2006, Meyer was the first U.S. junior women's sculler ever to medal at the World Championships

• Vires et Honestas
  "Attention!" This is it. Are you ready?

• Head of the Fox Salutes Matt Fox
  The 17th annual Tail of the Fox Regatta in was about a lot more than a great day of racing on the Fox River.

• Next thing I know, I am under water
  We proceeded at stately pace through the basin, in a two story tall power boat, with an orange Van Dusen perched across the rear guardrails, gently waking everyone and everything

• 8,999 Meters
  Nothing quite like a warm bath in the morning...

• Camp Reflections
  "We learned from the coaching; we learned from each other:" Jim Preston recalls a week at The All American Rowing Camp masters camps

• If you're rowing in Texas while Dick Cheney's out hunting, what boat should you row?
  

• Early Morning
  

• Coxswains Can Fly
  This is not the story of a first practice, or a novice race, or a monster crab. No.

• An Ode to the 8
  Heavy, outdated, full of wood/You gave us the best that you could.

• The High School Rowing Life
  My friends think I’m crazy.

• The Colgate Snow Coxed Four
  Ready all - melt - please...

• Sully's Rowing Christmas Carols
  

• Torque gets first!!!
  

• Otter Attacks Coaching Staff
  Otter terrorizes rowing coaches

• Rowing in Iraq
  Letter from Iraq, Diane F. Godorov, D.O. CPT MC, US Army

• A crab in the life of a novice eight
  Whoah, Coach never told me that could happen

• The Worst Erg Music
  Stop asking me why we build castles in the sky - I'm trying to erg!

• A Rowing Billet-Doux
  Darling...

• Shakespeare on Morning Practices
  To bed, or not to bed: that is the question:
  Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to linger
  Twixt sheets and pillows of luxurious fortune,
  Or to take oars to row a sea of honors,
  And by stroking win them? To row--or sleep...

• What Game Are They Playing?
  "The lessons of life are learned on the playing fields. Camus said that the only context in which he really learned ethics was sport. Athletes compete, deal.with winning and losing, bond with and resolve conflicts with teammates. They learn to manage their time and multitask. All of this makes them successful in life."

• Seat-Racing A Twinkie
  The oars barely clear the puddles, the blades seem to hesitate for weeks above the water and then thrash in with all the grace of a drunken spider doing a belly flop. It's one of those days. You've cajoled, you've cursed, you've thrown your megaphone.

  But wait, you think. I know what'll shake them up...

• Athens Here I Come
  This little rowing misadventure begins with a Saturday night out on the town with some friends, a few gin and tonics too many, and a woozy feeling of: "I think that I'm forgetting something" as my head hit the pillow at about 3am.

• Truly memorable, holy-beegeezus crabs