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...flacks and handlers whose job it is to make athletes talk like robots. With owner George Steinbrenner fanning the flames, the Yankees butted heads in the ugliest, most public manner imaginable, then pulled it together to triumph over the hated Red Sox in a one-day tie-breaker play-off that remains one of the most beautiful, jewel-like ball games ever played. Kahn's glittering group portrait paints the Yanks as both goats and heroes, and they are vividly, engagingly, enragingly human in both roles. Kahn is the author of The Boys of Summer--which Sports Illustrated named last...
...were able to come back and say, here we go, let’s start hitting again,” Walsh said. “That was a big momentum breaker...
...beginning of April in the Friis Trophy regatta. That weekend, the team posted a strong opening day score, 7-2, but floundered somewhat in the second-day round against the top teams, going 3-3. That 10-5 finish left Harvard in third place after losing a tie-breaker with Yale...
...last time Harvard was on Mystic Lake for team racing was at the beginning of April competing for the Friis Trophy. That time the team finished in third place, losing a tie-breaker to Yale, after a disappointing 3-3 record on the final day of racing...
...breaker goes to head-to-head matches, the Crimson and the Brewers have split two. However, Vassar won their match in three games, while it took Harvard five to finish off the Brewers. The game differential may represent the tie-breaker instead of a one-match playoff...