Word: hardluck
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...
...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...