Word: pennants
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...watched every pitch of the playoffs and haven’t done much work since the beginning of October,” said Jeffrey C. Holder ’09. After staving off elimination against the Cleveland Indians to clinch the American League pennant and secure their place in the World Series, the Sox bounced back to sweep the Rockies in four games. “Seeing the team come back [in their league championship series] and winning again makes it all worth it,” Holder said. Despite the raucousness of the crowd, HUPD officers worked to maintain...
...They're your Colorado Rockies: National League pennant winners, and World champs when it comes to mixing baseball...
...player thumps the Bible behind the clubhouse doors. It's true that men's magazines and rap music are just as prevalent in the team's locker room as around the rest of the big leagues, but Christianity plays a key role in the makeup of the National League pennant winners. (And the Rockies could sure use a miracle now; they enter tonight's Game 4 of the World Series against the Boston Red Sox trailing 3-0.) "It's a strong faith group," says relief pitcher LaTroy Hawkins, who admits he'd rather watch football than go to church...
...hasn’t stopped. As the Sox cruised through the final innings of their pennant-clinching win over the Indians Sunday night, groups of Boston fans gathered in common rooms all over campus. As the team celebrated at Fenway, fans spilled out into Harvard Square and celebrated the return of the World Series to our fine college town...
...just one World Series, in 1980. The Mets have won a couple since their birth in 1962. Philadelphia lost its 10,000th game this season, the most in professional sports. The franchise is also famous for a choke of its own, the 1964 team that lost the pennant after leading by 6 1/2 games with 12 left to play. They may have topped us this time, but thank God the Phillies aren't my team...