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...when Ben Coates elevated in the back of the endzone to snatch Bledsoe's one-yard touchdown toss, my attitude was bemused at best. Typical, I reasoned. Hardluck Boston fans get another week of falsely inflated hopes before the ultimate demise...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Unofficials | 12/1/1998 | See Source »

With the Eagles smelling blood in this seesaw affair, Duffell settled down, freezing Durkin with a change for the second out and blowing a fastball by the hardluck Quirk for his first career save...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib and Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS.S | Title: Baseball Twice Edges Out B.C | 4/15/1998 | See Source »

...life on the range aren't pretty. While postcard-stills of the sleeping town before sunrise frequently interrupt the screen, the camera focuses for the most part on relentlessly exposing the routine exhaustion of life in the pits: from the hard day's labor in the mines to the hardluck boozers in the C & W saloon. The tight angles force the audience into contact, and often an unsettling intimacy, with the heavy mundaneness of lower middle class life. One has scenes of a locker room echoing with weeping after lay-off notices, the crew trading sandwiches on their lunchbreak...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Woman Vs. Nature | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

...Baltimore defense squandered a fine pitching performance by hardluck loser Jim Palmer, who held the Bucs scoreless on only four hits through the first six innings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pirates Shutout Orioles, 4-0 Carry Series to Game Seven | 10/17/1979 | See Source »

...Mike O'Malley, Saturday's twin bill with Princeton was nearly a rerun of the Dartmouth doubleheader a week earlier. But there was one important difference--the Harvard offense finally gave O'Malley some runs to work with, and as a result, his first Eastern League victory of his hardluck season...

Author: By James W. Reinig and William E. Stedman, S | Title: Harvard Wins Three Games | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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