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Word: playoff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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With all the parity in the league, an exciting regular season will come down to the wire with all teams besides woeful Union having a shot at a playoff spot. Most will have some chance at being one of the five teams to host the first round of the playoffs...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan and Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Around the Men | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

After the loss, Harvard is tied for third place in the Ivy League alongside Cornell and Dartmouth and any playoff hopes are beyond its control...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Field Hockey Meets Friars | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

Often, veteran teams with extensive playoff experience win games they aren't supposed to win, and respond with wins when they're most needed...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dan-nie Baseball! | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...solid crowd of Crimson Crazies turned up a Bright Hockey Center at 11pm, despite the appeal of playoff baseball that may have kept some diehard fans at home...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Midnight Madness Kicks Off Hockey Season | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...didn't mean to use that word. I tend not to be fatalistic or superstitious about these things. I don't think the Sox are cursed because they sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920, or that the wobbly 1978 home run in a Sox-Yanks one-game playoff by a guy whose name rhymes with lucky was simply meant to be. To believe such hogwash would be dishonor our fathers. What were they believing in, all those years, if it was impossible? Were they idiots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faith of Our Fathers | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

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