Word: clinch
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...Boston Red Sox were about to clinch their second World Series championship in 89 years, the agent for Alex Rodriguez, who may go down as the best baseball player of all time, announced that his client was opting out of the final three years of his New York Yankee contract to become a free agent. After the game, the Sox couldn't sip their champagne without answering questions about A-Rod. It was the coronation of an eight-month march: spring training, a 162-game regular season, seven straight post-season victories. And there was A-Rod crashing the party...
...postseason, Harvard has adjusted its pre-game preparations. “We spent a whole practice working on our warm-up so we would all be ready to go as soon as the game started,” junior David Tune said. Because a victory on Saturday will clinch a spot in the Eastern Championships, the Crimson is primarily focusing its efforts on the Rams. “They’re a solid team, but I think we are the better team,” Ludwick said. “We need to bring focus and take care...
...University Hall. “I’ve watched every pitch of the playoffs and haven’t done much work since the beginning of October,” said Jeffrey C. Holder ’09. After staving off elimination against the Cleveland Indians to clinch the American League pennant and secure their place in the World Series, the Sox bounced back to sweep the Rockies in four games. “Seeing the team come back [in their league championship series] and winning again makes it all worth it,” Holder said. Despite...
...just a totally different league of rowing,” Young said, “so that put a little twinkle in my eye.”But though Harvard had wowed Young once, it took a disastrous recruitment visit to Yale to clinch his decision. Wavering between Harvard and Yale, Young visited both colleges one last time. While at Yale, Young was out on a launch with Bulldogs lightweight crew coach during an afternoon practice when a Yale heavyweight boat collided with a sculler going the wrong direction on the Housatonic River. The sculler was injured in the crash...
Were Edwards actually to win the nomination, that is a decision that could come back to haunt him. From the time he would clinch the nomination until after next summer's Democratic Convention, when the general election campaign officially begins, he would be barred from spending anything. That would make it difficult to defend himself against certain assaults from the G.O.P. Edwards strategists say outside groups could do some of that for him, but when Bob Dole found himself in similar straits in 1996, he was reduced to doing photo ops at gas stations around the Beltway to get attention...