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...kill went an impressive 5-6. “Lake Superior State was a great team and we did not have an answer to match their play,” co-captain Jimmy Fraser said. “They outworked us and they definitely deserved to be in the champion game [Sunday].”Alabama-Huntsville 4, Harvard 1When the Crimson entered the third period of the consolation game trailing 1-0, Harvard only needed 20 more minutes of hard skating, sound fundamentals, and a few breaks to erase the memories of last night’s loss.Though Moriarty...
King is a Hall of Fame tennis player and champion of gender equity in sports
...Still, most southerners champion their region's low-tax, non-union style of economic development, which they credit for luring overseas car companies like BMW and Kia to build major plants from Kentucky to South Carolina to Texas. More important, after spending the 20th century as America's industrial backwater - and after watching the conservative Reagan revolution they once led fade away in last month's presidential election - they hail the idea that the South is rising again in the 21st century. "The sense of confidence is palpable," says Jim Cashman, a management professor at the University of Alabama...
...background as a community organizer helping laid-off steel workers find work, or his promises to close the book on discredited trickle-down economics and renegotiate unfair trade deals. Few groups were as happy about the election of Barack Obama as organized labor, which felt it finally had a champion after more than three decades of being marginalized...
...says veteran agent Lonnie Cooper, who holds the unfortunate distinction of representing all six of the coaches fired this season. (Aspiring coaches, don't duck if you see him - Cooper represented Hall of Famer Chuck Daly and all-time wins leader Lenny Wilkens during their coaching careers; Rivers, whose champion Celtics are an astonishing 23-2 as of Wednesday, is also a Cooper client...