Word: beate
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this problem freshman year where I’d pass the ball instead of shooting, and my coaches hated it. You’ve got to have a nose for the net, they say—not being afraid to take risks…having the confidence you can beat your defender and go to the goal.”And that is exactly what she did, catching fire as the month of October began. Hagner kicked off her scoring spree with a goal in a 3-1 victory over Yale Oct. 4, and she notched another goal...
...remember after the game, that night being in [the] Durham airport,” Cohen recalled. “We got delayed for two hours, and we were all sitting there, getting phone calls from everyone we knew just saying, ‘Did you really beat Duke? Is that a joke...
...known as the world's most common dice game and it is played, with varying rules and sizes of table, in virtually every casino on the planet. Craps is a game of chance rather than skill, and with a low house advantage - around 1.4%, which makes it harder to beat than blackjack but easier than roulette - even novices can win. That is, if they're lucky...
...official organization that keeps track of gambling world records, a number of clubs record significant dice rolls. Before Demauro's, the longest craps roll lasted three hours and six minutes - accomplished at a Las Vegas casino in 1989, with 118 rolls. And according to gambling expert and author of Beat the Craps Out of the Casinos, Frank Scoblete, the highest number of successive dice rolls was 147, thrown by a man operating under the pseudonym the "Captain" in 2005. The average number of dice rolls before sevening out? Eight...
...sunny Thursday in Hong Kong when Carmen Wong takes the mike in a dimly lit room at a karaoke lounge. As she belts out a number by Cantopop (Cantonese pop) star Sammi Cheng, her colleagues bounce to the beat, waving forks in the air between bites of udon noodles, pork cutlets and potato salad...