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...against a home-schooled kid. The bookies were right again this year as SEAN CONLEY, 13, and home-schooled in Shakopee, Minn., until earlier this year, survived 16 furious rounds to become the nation's top youth orthographer. Conley, who finished second in last year's bee, went head-to-head with Kristin Hawkins for five rounds before knocking her off with succedaneum, which means "one who succeeds to the place of another." (Those bee people are an ironic lot.) But there are a million tales from the spelling bee--for instance, the bizarre happenstance of seven contestants...
Instead of opening the regatta with heats to determine placement in semi-finals, the repechage or the Grand Final, Henley is based upon head-to-head competition. All of the races are rowed between two boats and the winner of the race goes on to the next round. So with 32 entries in the Temple Challenge Cup, the winner of the event would win six races...
Twelve teams qualified for the championship from the seven different Intercollegiate Sailing Association regions. After a head-to-head round-robin over the first two days of competition, the top six teams split off into a championship double round-robin to determine the series champion...
Johnson’s absence in the final left Patterson and Beckford as Taylor’s toughest competitors in the event. Beckford was the only collegiate athlete to beat Taylor head-to-head this season, but that race had occurred in March before the snow had even melted on the Harvard track...
...Devils’ depth, the key to their offense is the production of their “A” line. Jason Arnott, Petr Sykora and Elias absolutely skated circles around the Penguins in the Eastern Conference finals. Bourque and fellow Avalanche blueliner Adam Foote will go head-to-head with perhaps the finest line in all of hockey...