Word: haven
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...HAVEN, Conn.--Less than a minute away from the biggest Ivy League upset of the year, the Crimson once again proved that there's always enough time left on the clock to lose one last game...
...those faithful Harvard fans in New Haven last weekend need not be bitter. For the world knows that the catch was never complete, the victory illegitimate, the title--Yale's first since 1989--marred by an eternal asterisk in the pages of collegiate history. The 116th Game will not be remembered as Yale's crowning triumph, but--thanks to photographic evidence and video replays on ESPN SportsCenter--as a show of ill-deserved serendipity...
...fair Harvard, show pity for the sons of Eli. Even the gloom of New Haven can be lifted by superficial athletic achievement. It would have been terribly embarrassing if Yale dropped the ball--like it has done so many times in the past ten years--in front of so many alums...
Only when the celebration ends in New Haven will a few of the brighter students realize that such transitory jubilation comes at a price. On the field, there is nothing crueler than a catch unanimously condemned, an uncertain victory leading to a title universally questioned. Fate, in her characteristic irony, has presented Yale with a double-edged sword, a transparent triumph ending in terrible tragedy...
...HAVEN, Conn.--Less than a minute away from the biggest Ivy League upset of the year, the Crimson once again proved that there's always enough time left on the clock to lose one last game...