Word: cinderella
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...just as quickly as male dancers magically materialize to wow the crowd with subtle moves and killer charm, they just as rapidly dissolve in Cinderella style at the end of the ball, concealed by a crowd of hungry faces...
...teams not invited, Michigan played a tough schedule but was left in the cold Sunday along with last year's runner-up Syracuse. But there's no time for you to get all soft and sentimental. You've got to be a cold-hearted prognosticator, blind to loyalties and Cinderella Syndrome...
ITHACA, N.Y.--All they needed was one more win to make the pain of a sub-.500 season go away. All they needed was one more Cinderella performance to again make their fans believe in miracles...
...ECAC tournament as the eighth seed, barely expected to make it through the preliminary round. Before the tournament was over, though, the Crimson had knocked off the league's best en route to an ECAC final appearance in Lake Placid. But then the magic wore off as the other Cinderella team, the Cornell Big Red, stormed into the NCAA playoffs...
What does a princess do after happily-ever-after? Oksana Baiul of Ukraine was Cinderella. The poor little orphan who slept at a run-down rink, practicing on uneven ice to qualify for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer. There she defeated the sport's two dueling ice queens and was suddenly royalty herself. Baiul, at 16, was embraced by a worldwide audience hungry for miracles and was beloved by Americans who were willing to pay handsomely to see success stories. Baiul went to America to become perhaps the most highly paid newcomer in professional figure skating (with...