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...never easy in a sport where acceptable behavior is to beat your opponent to a pulp, and where unacceptable behavior has never been bad for the gate. Holyfield himself once bit an opponent, "Jakey" Winters, during a Golden Gloves bout in 1980. Holyfield, who gnawed Winters' shoulder during a clinch, says he still had his mouth guard in at the time. Winters insists Holyfield spit it out first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFTER THE BITE | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

After an expected weekend sweep of Brown, Harvard faced a four-game weekend series with Dartmouth. The Big Green entered the series trailing the Crimson by two games. With Yale also two games behind, Harvard could clinch the division title with three wins...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Giant Killers | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Gorman remembers that sherry figured prominently once again after the 1969 Harvard-Yale game, in which the Crimson players scored 16 points in the last few minutes to clinch a "29-29 Crimson victory," according to The Crimson...

Author: By Aby. Fung, | Title: Protest and Change | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

Five days after beating Princeton to clinch the Ivy League title, sophomore starter Donald Jamieson (5-2) won another rubber match, pitching a five-hit complete game for the victory. Of course, he got a little help from any pitcher's two best friends--defense and clutch hitting...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Baseball Goes To NCAA Finals | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...Crimson then sandwiched seven hits between three fielding errors by the Big Green to score another six runs in the inning and all but clinch the division title...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: Baseball Clinches Red Rolfe Title | 5/7/1997 | See Source »

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