Word: cinderellas
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...those incadescent moments in sports. Jubilation reigned supreme at the IAB Saturday night as Harvard's Cinderella cagers and a capacity crowd of 1500 savored every second of the Crimson's radiant 93-87 win over perennial Ivy League powerhouse Pennsylvania...
...that means that now there's real life in the heavyweight ring. All those hungry challengers will be eager to get Spinks, and he'll be the spunky, determined, Cinderella champ...
...last year's Ivy finals, the two-time champion Tigers fed on the 1977 Cinderella-story Crimson with a 67-43 victory. This year, it looked as though the three-time winners from New Jersey would enjoy the same Harvard feast as they jumped out to a 12-3 lead just six minutes into the game. Princeton's two powerhouse scorers, C.B. Tomasiewicz and Jackie Jackson were doing the heavy offensive work. Both players have scored over 1000 career points and are averaging 18.9 and 20.3 points per game, respectively...
...Broncos, ah, the Broncos are the Mets of the Mountains. Theirs is a Cinderella story to catch the fancy of underdog rooters everywhere and stamp a presence on the national mind as copper bright and shiny as a new penny from the Denver Mint. It is exquisite, this first flirtation with a world championship of sport. No matter how often it may recur, it will never again be so sweet. It excuses the excesses and lifts the hearts of all who look on and recall...
Meanwhile, in a neutral corner, old is not Young. Young, at 28 years of age, is a serious contender and not the Cinderella story of ABC, whose portrayal of Young as Rocky Balboa makes as much sense as saying Duane Bobick is Rocky Marciano...