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Northrup garnered Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week honors with a well-rounded performance. He connected on field goals of 42, 44, and 47 yards, boomed three punts an average of 40.3 yards and made a touchdown saving tackle, which maintained the Tigers' 12-point cushion...
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...business? Now consider the most heavily hyped chess match of 1999: Garry Kasparov vs. The World ? which ended Monday in disappointment, cries of foul play and extraordinary mea culpas from Microsoft, the event's sponsor. The match started in June with the premise of pitting the planet's top player in a four-month match against a global army of Internet users. Kasparov's moves were posted on the Microsoft site zone.com; surfers voted on the countermove based on the recommendations of a panel of experts, and the most popular move was used...
...microsuck does it again," said one angry player on the site's bulletin board. Others complained of "ballot stuffing" and "lies, lies, and more lies." But it hardly seems likely Microsoft would so clumsily sabotage the game, especially after fellow techno behemoth IBM proved its might by using its most powerful computer, Deep Blue, to defeat Kasparov in 1997. Nor was the match one for which Kasparov was particularly pumped up, says Taylor. "He was going into it as an experiment to get more people involved in chess. He told me he was expecting a draw... This [botched e-mail...