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...Moroz pulled the Crimson within one. Harvard squandered a golden opportunity to tie the score when it missed a free position shot with four minutes to play, but freshman attacker Casey Owens came through in the clutch, scoring on a post-up move off a feed from junior defender Bernadette Devine...
...Good pitching will always beat good hitting, but today we had two good pitchers going,” Lopez said. “The good teams are the ones that get the clutch hits in those close games...
...about-town and a French business celebrity by turning Compagnie Generale des Eaux into a $51 billion global media giant, Vivendi Universal. Messier did it by orchestrating a series of stock-and-cash deals for American assets such as Universal Studios and USA Networks and merging them with a clutch of European media and telecom holdings...
Chamberlain was clearly in the twilight of his career, and would not be much more effective in containing Shaq than Dikembe Mutumbo was during the 2001 Finals. West was one of the most clutch players in NBA history, alongside the likes of Larry Bird and Michael Jordan, but would draw the unenviable assignment of guarding Kobe Bryant, whose athleticism would overwhelm the perimeter defense of ’72 Lakers. If the two teams were to play a series, the current Lakers would cruise, defeating their Inglewood ancestors in five games...
Dennis Johnson and Danny Ainge would keep Bryant and Derek Fisher in check to a reasonable extent, especially since their deadly shooting would force Bryant and Fisher to work overtime on the defensive end. Plus, Bird would be a factor in the crunch time, having been the greatest clutch player of all time...