Word: matchup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wearing a "Barkin for Harkin" sandwich board got an arf (former Harkin aides were present). The eeriest reverse deja-vu moment came when the camera caught Begala outside a hotel doing his drop-dead Perot imitation to abc's Mark Halperin's decent Al Gore, a preview of the matchup the night before on Larry King Live. The deepest groan sounded when, on-screen, campaign chairman (now U.S. Trade Representative) Mickey Kantor, in his power tie and suspenders, enters a room full of jeans and T shirts with election-day returns and apologizes to the camera for saying...
...since taking the title from Holyfield, but he barely worked up a sweat to achieve first- and second-round knockouts against over-the-hill pugs Michael Dokes and Jesse Ferguson. Looking beyond this Saturday's fight, some fight fans think they might see Bowe under some strain in a matchup with Lennox Lewis, the British boxer who defeated him in the 1988 Olympics. Lewis, another 6-ft. 5-in. power tower, inherited one of Bowe's three heavyweight titles after Bowe and his manager-mentor, Rock Newman, rejected the World Boxing Council's timetable for a fight with the Brit...
Every touch of grey has a silver lining, however, and Harvard's is this: With such an abysmal football coach in charge down there, the annual Brown-Harvard matchup really isn't much...
...biggest game in both the men's and women's leagues was last Saturday's matchup between the once-defeated Columbia men's soccer team and undefeated Princeton for (barring an upset this week) the Ivy League championship...
...offense is balanced, with Joel Foote moving the Tigers through the air as much as Elias rumbles on the ground, and the defense is one of the best in Division I-AA. The November 6 Princeton-Penn matchup in Philadelphia could be for the Ivy title...