Word: matchup
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...careful not to rule out a career in politics somewhere down the line. "The future is the future,'' he said. Well, it used to be. By the very fact of Powell's absence, the future is suddenly looking a lot like the past. Dole vs. Clinton, the '96 matchup that seemed inevitable until Powell made it seem otherwise, is back again in its familiar guise as Most Likely Scenario. It's a whole old ball game...
Precisely 100 years ago, there actually was no contest on the gridiron between the two arch-rivals. A bitter dispute over a violent 1894 matchup caused a two-year feud that prevented the 20th and 21st Games from going forward...
...Connecticut this year, students from both schools will inevitably imbibe alcoholic beverages, taunt their supposed archrivals, and pull for their teams in a gridiron matchup that ultimately concerns little more than pride...
...would have thought it at the start of the season? Who could have known that today's football contest between the Harvard Crimson and the Brown Bears would be such an even matchup...
...best in the American League vs. the best in the National, a team starved for a world championship because it hasn't been in the Series too often vs. a team starved for the title because it has been in the Series all too often. But the most intriguing matchup of all is the most basic in baseball: pitching vs. hitting, Maddux and Co. vs. Albert Belle and the Indians' latter-day Murderers...