Word: champ
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Defending champ Columbia shapes up as the highest hurdle. The Lions didn't lose anybody to graduation from a squad that had a perfect 9-0 league record (17-1 overall) a year...
Counter Clockwise from left--The Crimson mobs goalie GRANT BLAIR after its victory over Clarkson Friday night. BLAIR blocks a shot by Adam Oates in the ECAC Finals Saturday night. Below, the dejected team members watch ECAC champ RPI celebrate its 29th consecutive victory. A stunned Harvard fan also watches the celebration. Earlier in the third period, Crimson Coach BILL CLEARY cannot believe the referee's calls. Harvard defenseman RANDY TAYLOR sees Harvard chances for the win disappear through the clutches of BLAIR...
That means either Georgetown St. Johns or Michigan, and that means a pretty quick exit for the Ivy League champ...
Reactions to the ruling worldwide varied from dismay to disgust. Said Iceland's former World Chess Federation President Fridrik Olafsson: "Endurance is a factor in all chess matches, and it is absurd to help the champion by giving him a respite." Quipped ex-Champ Spassky: "Campomanes should be called Karpomanes." Meanwhile, Karpov remains champion, and in September the confrontation will begin anew, with no score. In August the chess federation will meet in Graz, Austria, and is expected to go back to the old 24-game rule, ensuring that there will be no repeat of the Moscow marathon...
...almost three decades, a sense of continuity may emerge; but, in the cause of an evening, the place in is anything but stable. Lunatics prowl at all hours, yelling in foreign or private languages, while the less crazed sweat over the video games (Marble Madness, Punch Out, Karate Champ), make secretive phone calls, chain smoke, binge, purge, engage in brawls to which the police are summoned--or simply attempt to mind their own business...