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...winds of fortune soon blew Harvard’s way. With Big Red defenders nipping vainly at his heels, Edwards blazed up the right side of the field to return a kickoff 92 yards for the score, the fifth-longest kickoff return in school history. Fitzpatrick converted for two points on a quarterback draw to tie the game...
...million in annual losses. Among other problems, the league spent itself into oblivion, having budgeted $40 million to finance its first five years yet laid out $100 million in the first three. Says industry consultant David Carter, founder of Sports Business Group, based in Redondo Beach, Calif.: "The WUSA blew through money like drunken dotcommers...
Brown field-goal kicker Steve Morgan surprised no one when he blew a chance to beat Harvard in the final minutes of Sunday’s football game, booting an easy kick far to the left. Brown, as we all know, is notoriously left-of-center...
...soon blew our cover. At the very first bar. Our conversation had turned to Yale—don’t ask—and a couple of the guys declared they were Harvard students. We quizzed them: “What house are you in?”, “What’s the mascot of Eliot House?” We exposed them as poseurs but blew our own cover in the process. What were we thinking...
...have a river worth damming, former residents say, but it does have a missile base, as well as, according to a frequent visitor, a munitions plant. An accidental explosion of rocket propellant--possibly a missile launch gone awry--could have caused the mushroom cloud, analysts say. Another possibility: Pyongyang blew up something to keep the world guessing about its nuclear intentions--a tactic the regime has used in the past...