Word: missouriã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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Bergman defeated her first-round opponent, Missouri??s Urska Juric, 6-2, 6-3 to advance into the round of 16. Playing in a rematch of the pair’s three-set marathon victory at the Riviera/ITA All-Americans in October, Bergman knew that she would need to be on top of her game to defeat Juric again...
...Missouri??s Senate seat was won by Republican Jim Talent, who defeated incumbent Sen. Jean Carnahan (D) in a race that was too close to call going into the election...
...hope that absence makes the votes grow fonder. When John F. Kennedy ’40 was shot in 1963, his public approval ratings skyrocketed from the nadir of his presidency. In an eerily similar chain of events, Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash within days of Missouri??s 2001 senatorial election, and his wife was able to seize the reins and defeat John Ashcroft. Perhaps history will again repeat itself...
...should not underestimate how difficult it is for an inexperienced or underachieving team to just “turn it on” come playoff time. For some perspective Harvard’s run is roughly equivalent to Missouri??s Elite Eight appearance in men’s basketball this year as a No. 12 seed after being ranked second in the country in December. Before that, you have to go back to 2000, when an immensely talented but underachieving North Carolina men’s basketball team reached the final four as a No. 8 seed...