Word: play-off
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...minds of Harvard's players on Monday was the necessity of avoiding the fate of Princeton and Penn. Without a win in Monday's doubleheader opener, the Crimson would have been in a must-win situation in the second game if it was to avoid a one-game play-off with the Bulldogs...
...exactly as they planned it. Wait out the regular season, grab a play-off spot and then, and only then would it unleash its full potential on the ECAC league...
...beginning of the first play-off game, every possible scenario has probably been mapped out on paper a million times over, before the players even make it onto...
...home court is more advantageous than the United Center, where they have a record of 38-1. Chicago has the best rebounder in the world, the most versatile forward in the N.B.A. and the finest player who ever lived. No way this team loses any of the four play-off series it needs to win to reclaim its title from the Houston Rockets, who borrowed it for two seasons while Michael Jordan shagged fly balls. "The Bulls," says New Jersey Nets forward Jayson Williams, "are like Clint Eastwood in a western, Arnold Schwarzenegger in an action movie. You can shoot...
...answer turns to yes, though, when Shula's indomitable class, his never flagging work ethic and his history of success are taken into consideration. He weathered a similar down period with the Dolphins in the late '80s, only to rebuild them into a perennial play-off team. This time around, though, Shula had two things working against him: the ascendancy of new Miami Heat basketball coach Pat Riley, who has turned the N.B.A. team around, and the rabid nature of sports talk radio, which has been feeding the frenzy against Shula and for Johnson. When Shula's resignation was announced...