Word: champion
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...Crimson (27-3)--making its fifth straight appearance in the national tournament--has been awarded a bye for this weekend's tournament action, along with Maine (29-11), the top seed in the East and the Hockey East champion, Michigan State (35-7-1), the West's numberone seed, and second-seeded Minnesota...
...College in New York City, is a scrupulous biographer. But he seems an ingenuous historian. In his view, Robeson became the target of "Cold War hysteria," and the sad outcome of a brilliant career was, in essence, "America's tragedy." But in fact, the wound was self-inflicted. The champion of minorities and laborers turned out to be oddly forgiving about crimes against humanity -- provided that they were committed in the Workers' Paradise. To him, Stalin's infamous purges were a $ proper way to deal with "counter-revolutionary assassins." The pact between the U.S.S.R. and Nazi Germany was excused...
Second-seeded St. Lawrence (27-2) is the defending champion in the tourney and used the automatic NCAA bid it earned with last year's crown to advance all the way to the national finals. Number-five Cornell (16-11-1) is looking to return to the prominence that earned it a league-high seven tournament championships...
...Tigers--this year's Ivy champion--will advance to the NCAA Tournament, which starts March 16 at regional sites across the nation...
...Harvard women's basketball team (15-11 overall, 9-5 Ivy) fell to Ivy champion Dartmouth, 65-62, last night at Leede Arena in Hanover, New Hampshire...