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...Crimson improved from its previous showing at the Yale Invitational, where it placed ninth out of 21 schools...
While Lehigh's ninth consecutive victory over Ivy foes seemed secure in the middle of the fourth quarter, Princeton (0-2, 0-0 Ivy) came within a two-point conversion of sending the game into overtime with 1:18 left after running back Kyle Brandt's four-yard TD run. However, the Lehigh (3-0) defense stiffened, and it stopped an end-around option play that would have tied the game and ran out the clock to keep the Tigers winless...
Although U.S. District Judge Marylin H. Patel issued a preliminary injunction on July 27 that would have effectively shut the service down, the injunction was swiftly overturned without comment by the ninth circuit court of appeals...
...Branch Rickey dispatched Sukeforth to scout Negro League shortstop Robinson despite an unwritten rule against black players. Sukeforth was also known to Brooklyn fans as the coach who in 1951 sent pitcher Ralph Branca rather than Carl Erskine in to face the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson in the ninth inning of the pennant play-off. On the second pitch, Thomson launched the "shot heard 'round the world," winning the pennant for the Giants...
...Line Oh, 'Boys! No Joey Galloway (out for the season with a knee injury) plus no Troy Aikman (out with his ninth (!) career concussion) equals no fun in Dallas, where Jerry Jones may already be thinking about who's going to be his next coach, and fans may already be thinking about whether they should switch allegiance to the new franchise starting up in Houston. The human capacity for avoidance is a wonderful thing, but after the Cowboys lose in Arizona to the lowly Cardinals there will be no avoiding the fact that there's going to be little...