Word: happened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chat about the officiating, shall we? One of the craziest things about A-League ball is that you never know what is going to happen with the officiating when you show up for a game. Most games have two or three students reffing the games, but you can't really count on that. In one of our games we had one ref, who had never reffed a game before. Needless to say, the officiating was less than stellar, although it wasn't his fault...
...most important, just like the NCAA's March Madness, upsets can and will happen. Winthrop had dominated its division during the regular season, going undefeated and placing itself as the odds-on favorite to take the title. In our division, meanwhile, Lowell earned the top seed, we were second with an identical record and Mather was third. However, in the tournament, Mather dominated Lowell--a three-seed topping a one--in one semifinal, and Pfoho, a two-seed, topped the undefeated Winthrop in the other...
...what am I saying here? Well Pfoho came, saw and conquered. I promised the boys they would get some play in the Crimson and I provided it. Finally, if you think what is about to happen in the world of basketball is pretty odd, the A-League tournament time can be just as maddening...
...tenured faculty member who will almost certainly not get tenure, I think the system is perfect. Because Harvard is a great institution it can hire the best professors in the world, not the best professors who happen to be at Harvard. Why would Harvard students want something different...
...commish does have a point. This lovefest wouldn't happen in a men's game. That premeditated pitch to Mantle was hushed up for years, whereas the Sales shot was a surreal, Broadway-like moment. After letting UConn win the tipoff, the opposing Villanova players stood silently on their side as a player ceremoniously dribbled the ball to the basket and handed it to the flat-footed Sales, who finished the stilted pas de deux by banking an ugly one off the backboard; then Villanova evened the game with an uncontested shot of its own. The backstage maneuverings were even...