Word: play-off
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...only a true optimist (like a long-suffering Cubs or Indians fan) would plan on attending many games during the imperiled 1994 season. But what lies ahead for 1995 is even more ominous for baseball traditionalists: the owners seem determined to cheapen postseason play by doubling the number of play-off teams...
...spectacle you see now, and for 60 hours on television, until the New Orleans finals on April 5, has been dubbed "March Madness" by the network hucksters, and it is the grandest play-off of any -- 112 college teams (64 men's, 48 women's) joyfully colliding, with their brass bands and cheerleaders and painted crazies in tow, in cities from Orlando, Florida, to Salt Lake City, Utah. March Madness is one of the nation's three greatest athletic events (the other two are the World Series and the Super Bowl), but it is only part of an underlying phenomenon...
...maybe I can buy that argument. But what about the fact that Harvard couldn't even sell out its own rink for play-off action against a team that it barely took three points from in the regular season...
Evans returned for the Sunday play-off with Dartmouth, which turned out to be Harvard's toughest opponent of the tournament. Vaezy said Harvard had to come back from a 105-point deficit...
RING! HELLO? ARGH! YOU'VE missed the final seconds of an N.F.L. play-off game to answer the phone only to hear a recorded voice pitching some product you don't want. Why, there ought...