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...fair, championship football. Just as we in the Bay State love our starting nine, so Colorado relishes the glory days of John Elway and playoff pigskin at Mile High Stadium. The proudest Denver resident in our midst readily admits to a stronger allegiance to the Bronco orange-and-blue to the Rockie purple...
Most of all, the Rockies’ success creates the unbeatably marketable David and Goliath scenario. As Dane Cook would say: this team stands “A MILE HIGH.” With the steroid controversy more present than ever in the Commissioner’s Office and in the minds of fans, America is happy to root for the scrappy underdogs against the big, bad, money-laden sluggers...
...exciting—we’re just going to take that speed and go.” And even more impressive than the freshman eight’s result was the way in which the boat attained it. Getting stronger throughout the race, Radcliffe posted the fastest final mile of any of those in the top three. The eight gained two seconds on second-place Alabama and an astounding six seconds on first-place Tennessee. In the end, the crew posted a time of 17.29.7, finishing just nine seconds behind the Volunteers. It was a different story...
...junior coxswain Tope Amos said. “We ended up passing the boat in front of us under the BU Bridge. I thought we were going to get penalized for going out of bounds, but we made it.” Near the end of three-mile course, the Crimson had already passed three boats and looked to make a strong and emphatic finish coming through the Eliot Bridge. Harvard looked poised to pull ahead of yet another crew in the last mile.“‘We can get them before the finish line. We?...
...that Harvard has dominated in recent years. The Crimson suffered an unexpected challenge when an oarsman fainted midway through the race. The Bulldogs then rallied to overtake the Harvard eight in the last 10 strokes and recorded a half-second victory—the closest finish in the four-mile race since...