Word: disappointingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Harvard and Cornell didn’t disappoint. The game was well played on both sides, with each team working hard for its offensive chances. Each was dominant for stretches and had the crowd sitting on the edge of its seat all night long...
...Celebrity Boxing did not disappoint. In fight 1, the battle of the child stars, Barry Williams entered the ring like an old man ready to die, sunken-eyed and flabby. Bonaduce bounced into the ring with an outsized confidence for a man who spends his days co-hosting "The Other Half," looking like he'd done plenty of bodywork since his well-publicized bouts with drugs. Sure enough, he sloppily but quickly dispatched Williams, who threw in the towel in the second round. Williams, who took as many standing 8 counts as Ali did in his career, gamely said...
It’s hard to improve upon perfection, but at least the Harvard men’s tennis team didn’t disappoint anyone this weekend. The Crimson maintained its unbeaten status, improving to 5-0 with a pair of wins over Fresno State and Charleston Southern...
Tonya Harding and her unfortunate crowbar antics were missed in Salt Lake City this year. But for figure skating fans with a leftover thirst for scandal, the Olympics did not disappoint. Matthew L. Butler ’04 was glued to the TV coverage of the controversial gold medal awards in the pairs figure skating competition for the same reasons most fans were: the beauty of the sport, the excitement of high level athletic achievement and, of course, crazy French judges. But Butler also had a bit more at stake in the success of the Russian skaters Yelena Berezhnaya...
...called freeskiing that is rapidly changing the sport in the U.S. And they are right where America's skateboard-surfboard-snowboard generation lives. In the mens? moguls, resident renegade Jonny Moseley had a sometimes raucous crowd salivating in anticipation of his signature "Dinner Roll" jump, and he did not disappoint. Moseley stole the show in each of his two runs - but left without a medal. Ah, the irony. The outrageous Moseley is too rad for freestyle. His Dinner Roll is a 720 degree off-axis rotating jump that Moseley executes going 45 mph down the 25 degree slope...