Word: flukes
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...sizzling crop of younger players suddenly materialized from the farm system. I found myself sucked into baseball fandom of the purest, most banal sort. I learned to love winning. I even expected them to win. Our playoff loss in 2006 to the St. Louis Cardinals was a fluke. Surely we would win this year. And we were winning-for the longest time. And then we were losing-spectacularly, with such garish determination that it brought to mind... the 1962 Mets. I embraced the ugliness of the slide, the entropy-propelled avalanche of awfulness. Well, maybe I did suffer a little...
...from the ECAC Fall Men’s Division I Invitational last year, the Harvard men’s tennis team found itself on a revenge mission. And though it didn’t win the championship, the Crimson proved that last year’s performance was a fluke, advancing to the semifinals before losing to top-seeded Penn State, 5-2, in a match that was much closer than the final score indicated. Harvard’s players took their opponents to three sets in five of the six singles matches against the Nittany Lions, though only...
...senior saber Dan Sachs pulled through in the end to place 15th, while sophomore Kai Itameri-Kinter matched his performance in the foil. Through its performances at the IFA, the Ivy League, and NCAAs, the Crimson showed this year that last season’s national title was no fluke. Harvard is here to stay and will continue to challenge competitors on the highest level. —Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu...
Coming off of a winless 2005 Ivy campaign, the Harvard women’s volleyball team was hungry to prove in 2006 that the previous year was a fluke...
...mistake by Suchde, or one fluke shot by me, and I would be one step closer to glory—and free Finale...