Word: championships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Feinstein, the author who followed Indiana Coach Bobby Knight and his Hoosier basketball team all the way to national championship in A Season on the Brink, pull it off again...
Other players returning from last year's Ivy championship team are Stephanie Clark, Hope Nichols, Mary Cist, and Daphne Onderdonk. Nichols and Cist are seasoned veterans, while Clark and Onderdonk both made big contributions as freshmen last season...
After dominating the Ivy League for the past two years, the Harvard women's squash team--the nation's number-one squad--will find the road to an Ivy and national championship a little tougher...
...RIDICULOUS! And that, to the crowd's delight, is just what the Buffalo Bills are doing. Their surprising performance this year has backers dancing on the soggy Astroturf and even thinking about a faraway game in January called the Super Bowl. Not so long ago, the chances of championship rings appearing on Bills' fingers seemed about as likely as finding hammerhead sharks in Lake Erie. In 1985 Buffalo sulked in the National Football League basement with a 2-14 record. The team hasn't made the play-offs since '81, and has never been to a Super Bowl...
...have come out blasting with a team of top draft picks and a deep-freeze defense to compile the N.F.L.'s best record (11-1 as of last week). In edging out the New York Jets last week, 9-6, the Bills clinched the American Football Conference Eastern division championship, becoming the first team to secure a play-off berth this year. It was the earliest that an A.F.C. team had won a postseason slot since...