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Forgive the Islanders if they are looking past their step-brothers to the winner of the Calgary-Minnesota series and a successful defense of the Stanley Cup. The Rangers have knocked off the second- and fourth-best regular season clubs with some tight checking and a lot of emotion, but nobody really expected them to get this far. And very few expect them to go any farther...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Nobody's Watching | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...throw against the Lakers, Walt Frazier is weighing the basketball in his hands, letting things simmer just a minute. He is about to let go and he hears a voice, loud and gleeful, come right out of the stands clear across to him: "Hey, man-you're the fourth-best guard in the league right now, and you ain 't movin' up 'till somebody dies!" Frazier blows the shot right there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star with the Killer Smile | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

Marshall Jones, Jim Keefe and Jim Hughes rounded out Harvard's top seven, finishing seventh, ninth and tenth, respectively. Cornell's fourth-best finisher, Tim Cahill, took eleventh...

Author: By James Hines, | Title: Harriers Crush Cornell, Rojas Wins With Record | 10/24/1972 | See Source »

...records for the season and will clash this Saturday at Franklin Field in a match that should determine the Ivy title. According to this week's national collegiate soccer ratings, Harvard is ranked third in the nation while the same poll picked the Quakers as the country's fourth-best squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quakers Come From Behind to Defeat Princeton And Remain Tied With Unbeaten Crimson Booters | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

With a 5-4 overtime defeat of Boston University last Friday, B.C. pulled its record up to 9-3, fourth-best in the East. Only three powerhouses--Brown, Colorado, and Northeastern--have managed to pull down the high-flying Eagles...

Author: By Joel Havemann, | Title: Improved Icemen Host Speedy B.C. | 1/13/1965 | See Source »

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