Word: championed
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...game for us and gave us the confidence we needed for the rest of the season,” captain Erik Grimm said months later, “to know that we could beat anybody.”It would be the only game that Brown, the eventual Ivy champion, would lose all year. And it would take its place on the long list of legendary Harvard comebacks.Fans might be well served to mark the time—Sept. 23, 2006—and the place—Providence, R.I.—on their fall calendars...
...about peaking at the right time, and after this weekend, no one knows it better than the Harvard lightweights.The varsity eight put its fourth-place finish at Eastern Sprints behind it, adopting a more aggressive strategy to come within 0.076 seconds of taking home the national title.Eastern Sprints champion Cornell won the gold medal with a time of 5:42.71, just edging the Crimson’s 5:42.79.But despite the disappointment of barely missing out on first place, Harvard’s rowers were ecstatic about the crew’s turnaround...
...rodeo circuit. He was a Professional Rodeo Man of the Year in 1980 and was installed in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City in 1984. Baldrige once appeared on the television game show To Tell the Truth pretending to be rodeo tie-down roping champion Dean Oliver." The cowboy businessman and the Harlem civil rights worker - each man was the embodiment of their party's best strains...
Crane's currency challengers have found a champion in Arizona Republican Representative Jim Kolbe. A free trader who calls the Crane monopoly "un-American," Kolbe has introduced legislation every year for a decade to overturn the laws that he says favor Crane. "First, there's the provision that only companies that are [at least] 90% American-owned can bid," he says. "We don't allow that for anything else, not even defense." The Secret Service insists that money must be produced and printed within the U.S. to maintain security, but the GAO found no reason to bar foreign companies from...
Much as we try, we can't stophumanizing our horses. This one's got the heart of a champion; that one has the guts of a mudder. We don't really know if there's anything behind all that anthropomorphizing. But we do know that a horse can suffer as we do--feeling pain, fear, confusion and shock. All of that was on display at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md., when Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro shattered his right rear leg at the Preakness Stakes just moments out of the gate. It was the most stunning racehorse disaster since...