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...reputation, Jiangchuan waved his chess prowess in Harvard’s face by taking on the whole team simultaneously. Benjamin likens the experience to “playing against God...I’ve never seen anything like it before.” Benjamin notes that his competitor would envision “long, complicated sequences in seconds” as he proceeded to defeat the entire Harvard team...
...peer-to-peer punting havens that allow gamblers to match up with one another, take about $5.2 billion in bets annually. But in Britain, traditional bookmakers like William Hill have been griping for years that because the exchanges allow punters to "lay" bets - bet on a horse, team or competitor to lose, rather like investors who sell stock short - they encourage corruption. No chance, say the exchanges, who insist that picking a loser is no different from picking a winner, and say their technology actually helps track unusual betting patterns. But in a report last week, a British government committee...
...show at the Middle East seemed to only buttress the group’s popularity in this country, putting the band in the unenviable position of now having to somehow record another, even more successful album, or have the crown of indie hopeful grabbed by a more nimble competitor...
Minnesota is unbeaten in its last nine games down the stretch, while both Dartmouth and St. Lawrence are coming off losses to another Frozen Four competitor...
...keep down any food leading up to Saturday’s game after catching a stomach virus. But that did not stop Cavanagh from playing, nor from starting, in the championship. And that shouldn’t be a surprise to any observer who knows how fierce a competitor he is. Assistant captain Rob Fried joked that the stomach virus and the vomiting weren’t all that important because Cavanagh would occasionally puke as a result of his intensely hard play...