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...former Eagles coach Buddy Ryan, fired last season after the team lost its first playoff game for the third year in a row. Rams defensive coordinator Jeff Fisher was Ryan's defensive coordinator in Philadelphia before heading west...
Last year, the two teams split their playoff series with each winning in the other's rink. But Rensselaer fans are undoubtably still smarting over the Crimson's first-round victory that knocked the Engineers out of ECAC tournament...
...capture of favored Los Angeles. It helped that everybody hated the damn Dodgers. It didn't hurt that Braves partisans urged the team on with toy tomahawks and a war-chant mantra, which the votaries could moan for innings on end (the dumbest mass spasm since the Wave). By playoff time, the Braves were high and loose. All the Pirates' edgy swagger could not mute the magic -- or solve the riddle of a brilliant Atlanta pitcher, as young and ageless as Lefty Grove...
...loudest baseball crowd in memory when the National League playoffs move to Atlanta Saturday, but it will add unique twists to playoff lore: the tomahawk chop and the war chant...
Gordon Verrell, who covers the Dodgers for the Long Beach Press-Telegram, recalled some loud crowds at usually laid-back Dodger Stadium. They were in 1980 when the Dodgers began a three-game series needing a sweep to tie the Astros and force a one-game playoff...