Word: championships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reached the finals by defeating another Rutgers player, Haji Jagsdale, 6-3, 2-6, 6-1 in the semis. In the championship match, Lee took a commanding 5-0 lead before losing focus and dropping the next two games. Before the start of the next game, however, Olthof retired...
...first college tournament, surprised everyone in the "B" singles field. He played with a severe case of nerves in the first round but relaxed and gained momentum with each match. After defeating players from BU and two of his own Harvard teammates, he pulled a groin muscle before the championship match...
There is a senior counterpart to Lance Armstrong, who overcame testicular cancer to win the Tour de France bicycle championship this year. He is Sid Duckman, 80, who has traveled a long road of medical catastrophe: a 1 1/2-ft. section of his colon was removed in the early '80s because of cancer. A decade later, he underwent 35 radium treatments for prostate cancer. This summer his spleen and left kidney, also cancerous, were taken...
...griping about money and the lack thereof, and forget for a moment that the U.S. Ryder Cup team has in recent years been the most consistently underachieving group in sport. Remember instead the victory, the largest comeback in Ryder Cup history that gave the U.S. team its first championship since 1993. Down 10-6 going into the final day in Brookline, Mass., the American players won their first six matches easily and clinched when Justin Leonard's putt on 17 assured the U.S. team of 14 1/2 points, just enough...
...This match up will be the first in Ivy League play for Yale and the second for Harvard, but it may have championship implications...