Word: porousness
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...years went by, the Browns continued to discover new and cruel ways of exciting expectation and delivering disappointment. By '93, Kosar's ability had eroded after years of pounding wrought by porous offensive lines and his own immobility. For years Modell had praised his quarterback and team leader, going as far as to liken him to a son. But in what would presage his ultimate act of betrayal, Modell OK'ed Kosar's release; Browns fans were left shocked and hurt. In addition, we had to watch Vinny Testaverde - who at that point was best known as a Heisman Trophy...
Harvard's big men also neutralized the threat created by the Huskies' 6'10 center George Aygar. After a first-half interior defense that Prasse-Freeman described as "porous", Mayshak, sophomore forward Sam Winter and even 10th man Brian Sigafoos, a 6'10 JV call-up, got tough and won the battle of the paint. Harvard scored more points in the paint than Northeastern (20-14), and also limited the Huskies to four second-chance points...
...good reason to do so. It's Pat, of course, who talks about "securing America's borders," and the good folks in Florida are going to have a wave of border problems in the coming years. Not that Fidel is planning to send more desperate Cubans across the porous international border into Key West. He's too busy chuckling as Florida recovers from picking the 43rd president since our revolution--and the 10th since his--while threatening to send his own election monitors into Miami. No, the border problem in Key West and other low-lying places in Florida will...
...There was an important difference against Penn last Saturday compared to last season. On each of Hoffman's passes late in the game, a Harvard defensive player was in position to make a play on the ball. Last year, receivers would break free against a porous Crimson defense...
...Lion keeper has helped a once-porous defense clamp down and allow just 2.35 goals per Ivy outing in 2000--good for fourth in the conference. Still, she almost half the shots fired her way reach the back of the net. She probably represents Columbia's weakest link...