Word: beating
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...also kept the Crimson's ever-flickering chances for an ECAC playoff berth still lit. Harvard must beat B.U. tonight in the Beanpot finals and Yale Saturday night, while Providence must lose to Boston College on Friday for post-season to be something other than flaming jelly-beans at Jack...
Then, seconds before the one minute warning Cooper awoke with a bang. She tied the bout with a straight-in attack, then moved ahead 2-1 on a low lunge with 46 seconds left. Eight seconds later, Cooper made it 3-1, by beating Mejias's blade down and poking her unprotected belly, and only two seconds after that the score became 4-1 on another Cooper beat attack...
What drives Ali to think of returning to the ring is pride. If he could somehow beat Spinks and win back his title, he would round out his career and make time stand still?for a little while. The rhyming ex-champion is much like Shakespeare's deposed poet-king Richard, who wrestled with himself and the gathering forces that beat against his life. Muhammad Ali careened across his stage, by turns as hopeful and despairing as his times. He is unlikely to go quietly into the past...
...like Ali, Namath's lasting imprint in memory involves certain splendidly perfect moves: his flickingly fast release of passes, his clairvoyant readings of defenses and where his receivers would be. Like Ali, Namath could be an arrogant gamesman: he preposterously predicted that his 17-point underdog Jets would beat the Baltimore Colts in the 1969 Super Bowl-and they...
After the meet Saturday, Corcoran said, "It was a good year. The only team we couldn't beat we Princeton." D'Agostino, who raised his record to 14-3 said, "Personally the season ended on a good note. One more week of good luck and I'll be very happy...