Word: play-off
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There was a rainstorm the day before Radcliffe rugby’s first round play-off game early last week against Boston College. The intramural fields behind Harvard stadium were so sloppy that even in cleats, the players kept slipping through the muck. These are terrible conditions to play in, Uber—who broke her fibula in an early season game—comments from the sidelines, but it makes the game cinematic...
...need to visit the Institute of Contemporary Art, to walk the Freedom Trail, to crack an oyster at the Union Oyster House. I am afraid I missed all the Red Sox play-off games...
...fellow pros watched on a television in the players' lounge at the Aegon Championships at The Queen's Club in London, a warm-up event to Wimbledon. It's hard to imagine NBA stars congregating to cheer on Kobe Bryant, or pro golfers arranging to watch a Tiger Woods play-off, but for Blake and his mates there was no question where their allegiance lay. "We wanted to see Roger make history," Blake says...
...first communal call it seems a wise one. Ebbsfleet sit ninth in the Blue Square Premier league and remain in the hunt for a play-off berth for promotion to the professional English Football League. And for a place that never really existed on the map, Ebbsfleet has arrived. The club was known as Gravesend and Northfleet until May when it was renamed to match the new Eurostar station nearby which opens next week. This is handier than you might think: with MyFC members based in over 75 different countries, Eurostar is also the club sponsor. Air links are pretty...
...market Mets. In just two years, he has remade a last-place organization lacking credibility into a paradigm of tried-and-true New York. The Mets are a diverse, dramatic (37 come-from-behind wins), free-spirited team that has relegated the Yankees, who also clinched a play-off spot last week, to second billing. Like last year's champs, the Chicago White Sox, the Mets have been that other team in town. But this year the Sox--both the Chicago and Boston versions--have folded, increasing the possibility of a Subway Series. The silver lining for baseball fans elsewhere...