Word: championships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Against both Santa Clara and St. Joseph's, Harvard was overmatched inside. Santa Clara center Alex Lopez led the Broncos with 13 points in the first-round game and St. Joseph's center Damian Reid led the Hawks to the tournament championship with 17 points and 18 rebounds. Both the Broncos and the Hawks outrebounded the Crimson by 10 boards...
...never complained about the years of being the No. 1 contender and being mistreated as champion. All I ever heard were these pieces of the foundation of a great American--the traveling on boxcars and sleeping where he could. On the night he won the Light-Heavyweight Championship but no money, there was that gleam in his eyes. When he uttered the word champion, that made me, too, want to be a champion. Working for me and other boxers, he made it clear: "I love God, my family, and I will love you if you work hard." So Archie laid...
...MICHAEL JORDAN As if in some far-fetched action film, Michael Jordan once again snagged victory at the last second. His sixth championship of the decade came over a favored Utah Jazz team. Who was putting his Vegas money against MJ? Smarter to bet he'd score 45 points to win Game 6 and another ring...
...shoved in as many NHL players as could fit on a team and packed them off to Nagano; each squad came home with zero Olympic medals. The Czechs, led by NHL goaltender Dominik Hasek, beat them both. Then they crushed the formerly occupying Russians in an emotional championship game. The all-night celebration in Prague made U.S. ticker-tape parades look silly...
Instead, some pencil-pushing, pencil-necked geek locked in a basement room at The Seattle Times is helping to determine who plays for the national championship by his computer program. And in a sick way, it's probably fairer. Florida State lost to North Carolina State 24-7 in Week Two and the voters forgave and forgot. Kansas State lost 36-33 Dec. 5 and it was screwed...