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...brought thus far.To simplify this endeavor, it’s time to play a little game called overvalued or undervalued. The purpose here will be to point out those teams poised for a run up the standings during the latter stages of the year and those primed for a late-season fade.OVERVALUED:Princeton—The Tigers play four of their next six on the road and get an extremely vengeful Crimson squad as one of their two respites at home. A .500 record in those six contests would be a pretty solid mark, and throwing in a season-ending...
...peroration on such subjects as Hugo Chvez, the Pope, Elin Gonzlez, why Ozzie shouldn't have to stand in line to get his U.S. citizenship papers, and how he would be just as content to be somewhere else, fishing. Ozzie told a local newspaper during a late-season slump, "We stink!" A few days later, he added, "Good thing my players don't listen to what I was saying to the media." But his players compete hard for him. "Guys want to play for him," says Sox reliever Cliff Politte. "In his office or on the airplane...
...team that preached defense all season long, Murphy became the face of a late-season campaign for an Ivy title. Her three steals in a 70-67 championship-clinching win over Dartmouth helped the Crimson overcome a 15-point deficit in the second half...
Harvard’s second game of the day proved by far the most exciting, resulting from a competitive, playoff atmosphere. Though a late-season game, the Crimson didn’t rest its starters, and emotions ran high. Brown (9-10) had always proved a tough opponent for the Crimson, but this evening was unlike any other...
Important? With five of Harvard’s nine losses coming when Johnson goes scoreless, and the win-or-go-home philosophy of late-season tournaments now in effect, “necessary” is a more applicable word. With just 3:59 remaining in the ECAC semifinal on March 18, it was—not surprisingly—Johnson who scored the Crimson’s second goal to temporarily push Harvard back into the lead in its eventual 4-3 double-overtime victory...