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Harvard's annual battle with Yale is only one of the hundreds of hard-fought rivalries in the country. Almost every school has a rivalry, and most of them are centered on football. Rivalries take three general forms. League or conference rivalries, like Harvard and Yale, are usually the last game of the year and can make or break a season. Regional or instate rivalries like Texas-Oklahoma or Miami-Florida can be among the most hotly contested. Most of the students have friends at the other schools, and the coaches annually vie for the best recruits in the area...
Both Currier and South came away yesterday with hard-fought victories, moving them one step closer to the House championship...
...this fizz and fever, the seventh and final race that broke the New York Yacht Club's 132-year-old hold on the Cup and ended the longest winning streak in sports, had been billed in advance as the Race of the Century. It was that, every hard-fought inch...
...part, Illinois Republican Governor James Thompson did neither when he was up for re-election last November, but he came close enough to defeat: his margin of victory was a mere 5,074 votes. Last week the Washington Post reported that in the middle of Thompson's hard-fought race he altered the method by which Illinois' weekly unemployment statistics are reported to the U.S. Labor Department. The gambit, which is used by other states and met with no objection from the Labor Department, conveniently maintained Illinois' unemployment-insurance payment rate at precisely the level needed...
...thrill of a lifetime," proclaimed Vice President George Bush, 59, after he and five-time Wimbledon Winner Bjorn Borg, 27, came from behind in a friendly but hard-fought game of doubles at Stockholm's Royal Tennis Hall to defeat Sweden's former Davis Cup Star Jan-Erik Lundquist, 46, and the country's Ambassador to Washington, Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 60, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. The winning team's post-mort opinions of each other's play reflected the differing strengths of their diplomatic strokes. "I think he played very well," said Borg...