Leave it to the Fox Sports Network to measure the Harvard-Yale rivalry where it matters the most: in the Geek department. Investigating the Harvard-Yale tailgate, a reporter pitted some Crimson fans against the Bulldogs in a mission to find out which team could out-geek the other.

The video is a follow-up of last year’s popular debut attempt, appropriately titled “Geeks Gone Wild,” featuring some fresh faces including a first-year member of the Expressions Dance Company who surely knows how to dougie, and a Varsity Squash player who uses words like “alternate reality” to explain the ending of Lost.

SPOILER ALERT! (Not that it matters to anyone) Harvard won the Geek-Off by a landslide, and we’re a little ashamed to admit that this victory tastes somewhat sweeter than the one on the football field. Granted, we also had one too many sips of Four Loko to understand what was going on down there as fully masked players fought over a tiny ball. (Seriously, what is the point of watching a game with hot athletes if you can’t even see their faces?)

However, we must say that last year’s video was slightly more entertaining, featuring an out-of-the-world Math geek whose familiarity with Pi made us proud, French geeks (they’re European!), and half-naked Currierites jumping up and down.

Check out the new Geeks Gone Wild II video here: We beat Yale at everything.

This just in: Wide receiver Baltazar Zavala ’11 learned that he just became a Rhodes scholar after Harvard’s 28-21 victory over Yale earlier today. The news came via a text message that he found as he left the field to celebrate with his teammates. “Congratulations. You’re a Rhodes Scholar,” it said.

The 6’1, 185 lbs walk-on from El Paso, Texas, was also recently selected to join the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa earlier this month. A neurobiology and engineering concentrator in Kirkland House, “Zar” Zavala maintains a 3.934 GPA, according to a feature article from the Boston Globe that was released in celebration of his winning a Marshall Scholarship. Both scholarships offer recipients opportunities to conduct postgraduate study in the United Kingdom. The Rhodes, whose long list of influential and famous alumni includes former President Bill Clinton, will cover tuition fees for up to three years of study at the University of Oxford.

Zar flew to his hometown for the interview late Friday afternoon, and didn’t get back to Boston until about 25 minutes after kickoff, but he dressed and joined his team on the field as Harvard defeated Yale for the ninth time in ten years.

(Image: Zar (No. 41) on the field. Source: Facebook.com)

Gracing the pages of multiple publications today, Zar said “I can’t think of a better day!” Noice offers the heartiest congratulations to our winning senior, in every sense of the word! Some people do have it all.

Sources: LA Times, ESPN, HuffingtonPost (basically, the Internet & Facebook)

Have some Yalies to entertain this weekend? Don’t know how in the world to pre-game your weekend festivities? Want to mix up your normal weekend party routine? There is quite a bit going on here at Harvard with the 127^th Harvard-Yale Game to be played this Saturday. Here are just a few of our suggestions to occupy yourselves while you wait in anticipation!

Thursday Nov. 18:

Light Up the Yard: The Harvard-Yale Pep Rally

8 PM John Harvard Statue

FREE food and refreshments

Disney Revue – A Comedic Reworking of Classic Childhood Tunes

8 PM Adams House Pool Theater

FREE w/ reservations DisneyRevue@gmail.com

Also showings Friday Nov. 19 8 PM & Saturday Nov. 20 8 PM, 10 PM

Friday Nov. 19:

Men’s Swimming & Diving vs. Columbia

5 PM Blodgett Pool

FREE

Women’s Ice Hockey vs. Dartmouth

7 PM Bright Hockey Rink

FREE w/ HUID

Glee Club H-Y Football Concert

8 PM Sanders Theater

$10 w/ HUID

Harvard’s Oldest Improv Troupe (OTI)

Annual Harvard-Yale Show

9 p.m. Science Center D

FREE

Harvard-Yale Acappella Jam

9~10 PM, Harvard Hall 104

FREE

Everyone at the Harvard-Brown football game was there for one reason, and one reason only: to see Emma Watson. However, sightings were rare and Harvardians openly speculated that she wasn’t actually in attendance. We would like to set the record straight. She was there, we saw her, we photographed, and here’s the proof. Take that!

Emma, we love you!

Note from the Editor: There seems to be much ado about nothing over this photo and liveblog. Understand that these live tweets were made to be intentionally outrageous and overblown. As for the photo, it was taken on happenstance — one of our photographers happened to leave the game at the same time as Emma and snapped a quick photo. (September 27, 1:47AM)

[10/01/09] See additional Note from the Editor here.