Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest comeback story of the day was probably Menick's, however. He ended up with 21 carries for 112 yards, but it wasn't as simple as that. His fumble on the kickoff return put Holy Cross in position to score its second touchdown. His ability to bounce back from the mistake let Harvard get back in the game...
Forget all the griping about money and the lack thereof, and forget for a moment that the U.S. Ryder Cup team has in recent years been the most consistently underachieving group in sport. Remember instead the victory, the largest comeback in Ryder Cup history that gave the U.S. team its first championship since 1993. Down 10-6 going into the final day in Brookline, Mass., the American players won their first six matches easily and clinched when Justin Leonard's putt on 17 assured the U.S. team of 14 1/2 points, just enough...
...rejuvenated both his own sputtering career and men's tennis in general. So winning the Open title in rowdy Flushing Meadows would be fitting. To do so, though, he'll have to get by the top gun, Pete Sampras, who hasn't needed to stage a made-for-television comeback, being too busy winning everything in sight. Andre and Pete. Tennis is back...
...persona package, at times a bandannaed pirate, at times the Punisher, who displayed a boorish attitude along with an admirably vicious game. He won another Grand Slam event, the 1995 Australian Open, and was cruising along as a bad-boy Numero Uno until he was again knocked into Kingdom Comeback by Sampras, who had more tools than a Swiss Army knife. Sampras administered a straight-set thrashing in the U.S. Open finals that cracked Agassi's karma, causing him to question whether tennis...
...think the new format favors the underdog in doubles," Granat said. "With the eight-game pro-set if you get down early its harder to make a comeback...