Word: bridesmaids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other words, the Crimson is getting a bit tired of being a bridesmaid in women's lacrosse, if that leap of metaphorical faith holds...
...familiar boy-meets-girl scenario. To begin with, the boy only seems to run into the girl at weddings and funerals (an unabashed but not intolerable exploitation of life's most emption-filled occasions). Second, the boy is a die-hard English bachelor who embodies the adage, "Always a bridesmaid and never a bride...
...team. F.S.U. has won 10 games or more six years in a row; it is undefeated in its past 11 bowl games; it gobbles up most opponents like Homer Simpson at an all-you-can-eat restaurant. Yet for years the Seminole team had the reputation of a pigskin bridesmaid because it somehow managed to find a way to lose to those cross-state behemoths at the University of Miami. Even the F.S.U. press book repeats the phrase "can't win the Big One," like a mantra. It's meant ironically but still reveals an open psychic wound...
While the Crimson might have been moretalented, the Terps were hungrier. Marylandfinished second in the tournament in both 1990 and1991, and refused to be the bridesmaid for thethird year...
Well, the Harvard women's lacrosse team's season come to an end last weekend at the hands of perennial bridesmaid Maryland...