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Royal deked Tracy on the fore-hand and lifted a backhand past the Crimson netminder to give his squad a two-goal lead...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Ouch! M. Hockey Manhandled by Wildcats, 5-2 | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...beyond the nearly 170 singles titles and $20 million in prize money she has won in her career. She has left her mark as indelibly as Billie Jean King, who introduced emotion and brio to the game, and Chris Evert, whose legacy includes killer concentration and the two-fisted backhand. Navratilova's gifts may be even more significant. She elevated serve and volley tactics to a higher level on the women's tour and made it fashionable for women to display muscle tone. Even traditionalist Evert began to pump iron after Martina showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Last Waltz At Wimbledon | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

...Open, when she was two games away from beating Steffi Graf in straight sets, or the 1981 U.S. Open, which she lost to Tracy Austin in two tie breakers after winning the first set 6-1. She blames mostly her shotmaking, not her nerves. "If I had had a backhand down the line instead of only crosscourt," she says, "I would have won two more French Opens." In her mind, she is getting better -- craftier at her game plan, defter at her execution. On court, the story is the same old sad one, the fluttering fall of an autumn leaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Martina Navratilova | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

Martins then sealed BU's fate with ahighlight-material goal at the 9:05 mark. Insteadof passing the puck to a wide-open Cory Gustafson,Martins took the puck from the right side of theTerrier net, deked out a BU defender, switchedhands and lifted a backhand shot over McKersie tomake the score...

Author: By David S. Griffel, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard Defeats BU in Beanpot | 2/8/1994 | See Source »

Farrell's 17th goal of the year, a top-shelf backhand move created by senior Chris Baird, gives the third-ranked Crimson (12-3-2 overall, 10-2-2 ECAC) some much-needed momentum going into Monday nights' Beanpot showdown with number-two Boston University (5-2 winners over UMass-Lowell last night...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Tame Tigers, 4-3, in OT | 2/5/1994 | See Source »

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