Word: cinching
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...Losing is mostly what sport is about. There are dozens of players on nearly every team, from the Peewee League to the pros, and dozens of teams in every sport. How many of us make those teams, or become star players, or get to play for a championship, or cinch the game with a last-second score? Hoop Dreams notes that of the 50,000 or so gifted kids playing high school basketball each year, 14,000 play in college, and only 25 reach the NBA. Even a star jock -- Charles Barkley, Ernie Banks, O.J. Simpson -- may never...
...NATO flyers bombing and strafing Serb gun positions could be shot down and killed, or captured and paraded on TV as hostages, a la Iran or Somalia. The air strikes could be ineffective: finding and destroying well-hidden artillery pieces, especially mortars that can be moved quickly, is no cinch. The Serbs could step up their offensives far from Sarajevo, intensifying the killing in other vulnerable towns like Srebrenica and Tuzla. The Serbs could take prisoner or even kill civilian aid workers who distribute food and other humanitarian assistance. Result: whipsawing pressures on Clinton either to cut and run, wrecking...
Dadason won player of the Week honors for his efforts. Columbia must defeat 1-4 Dartmouth to cinch the automatic...
With only sophomore Chris Laitala (playing sixth) and freshman Daniel Chung (playing fifth) out on the court for Harvard, the Crimson only had to win one to cinch the match. But Laitala lost a third-set tiebreaker and the score was tied, putting the pressure squarely on the freshman...
...Cinch to Clinch: The top-ranked team in the nation, Maine, slipped a bit Friday night in its 7-6 overtime loss at home to Boston University, but a 6-1 pasting of the Terriers the next night clinched the Black Bears their second-straight Hockey East title. Sparking the victory, of course, was freshman sensation Paul Kariya, who is featured in this week's Sports Illustrated (the one with all the scantily clad women). The report likens the small and speedy Kariya to Wayne Gretzky and calls him a shoo-in for the Hobey Baker award...