Word: championships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...focus of the weekend centered on Iona. The victory over the Gaels assured Harvard its Northern Division Championship seeding and, in all likelihood, a loss would have negated any momentum built by the other four victories...
...favorites for the Ivy championship," Ripmaster said. "We are confident that we can clinch the Ivy League title this year...
...Boston Red Sox last won baseball's world championship fourscore and one years ago, in 1918, and as baseball folk like to say, you can look it up. They did not win in 1919 and, though they came so very close, they did not win in 1946, '48, '49, '67, '72, '75, '78, '86, '88 and, in this decade, 1990, '95, '96 and '98. This record can be seen as one of remarkable consistency or futility ? your pick ? but it's certainly one that marks the Red Sox as a companionable second or third banana. They've been so often...
...Bill Buckner was a first baseman who let a ball slip through his legs in 1986, giving the New York Mets life and, ultimately, the championship. He's a player in this long psychodrama now, as are Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams ? some great baseball names. But this isn't about them. It's about Scott, my brother-in-law and father of my niece. Scott is not from Massachusetts and until recently wasn't even much of a baseball fan. His wife, Gail, my sister, is fiercely from Massachusetts, as are my brother, my father, my mother...
...months old: ?"They just may win it in your lifetime." Pedro ? that's Martinez, of course ? had, the evening previous, pitched six hitless innings against the Cleveland Indians to cap (as they say in baseball) a near-miraculous comeback and lift the Red Sox into the American League Championship Series against the reviled Yankees. Scott tickled Callie under the chin and said, ?"They just may win it in your lifetime." They both giggled. Scott was making sport. He thought he was being funny...