Word: playoff
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Harvard, along with the rest of the Ivy League, are members of NCAA division 1-AA football, and as such, are entitled to compete with teams such as this year's opponents Lehigh and Bucknell for a berth in the 1-AA playoffs. The winner of the Patriot League, against whom Harvard is 1-1 this season, receives an automatic bid to the 16-team playoff...
...counterparts cooling their heels in Microsoft country: don't fret, we'll meet again someday. Maybe next time, we'll both remember that playoff complacency is the hobgoblin of 90-win seasons, and that October is still the best time of year for drama...
Winning one inconsequential playoff game in one of thousands of Little Leagues can't compare with winning the World Series. Or can it? For Alex, Ari, Billy, Bo, Chaz, Frankie, Jeff, Jon, Joe, Mark, Sam and Zach, it can. One big yellow flower bloomed in the outfield that day. Daisy? Daffodil? It certainly wasn't a dandelion. Let's hope it's a perennial, even if only in their memory...
...remember all the way back to the magical year of 1986, when Mike Scott no-hit the San Francisco Giants to clinch the division. If so, you'll also remember the harrowing six-game series with the cocaine-inspired New York Mets which some have called the greatest playoff series ever...
That series included the most exciting playoff game of all time, which ended when Kevin Bass struck out against Jesse Orosco with two runners on in the bottom of the 16th inning. It haunts me to this...