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...recent proliferation of post-season events, however, has forced college football's extravaganzas to kick off earlier each year. This year's initial yuletide offering--the Garden State Bowl--arrives compliments of Mizlou T.V., a full ten days before Santa...
...Orioles last represented the American League in the World Series in 1971, when they lost in seven games to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Angels have not won an American League championship since they began play in 1961. In fact, last night's game was their first post-season contest of any kind...
Nobody is surprised. For two years, the Crimson icemen had raised high hopes with impressive early showings, then blown a shot at post-season competition with unexpected collapses. But in 1978-79, Bill Cleary's squad didn't bother to heighten the suspense: from their 7-2 drubbing at the hands of Dartmouth in the opener to the long-awaited finale (Yale's ultra-frustration job at the New Haven Colliseum), the skaters inspired no delusions of grandeur, only apathy and pathos...
...while, a long while, it looked as though the Bruins just might pull it off, gaining their first post-season victory in Montreal since 1971 and the pure satisfaction of outlasting their nemesis from up north...
Though hopes for a post-season playoff berth in the NCAA tournament seemed virtually obliterated after the Princeton loss, a pair of wins this week could brighten the Crimson hopes and send Harvard back into control in New England. (The Bruins and Crimson both both have three losses on the season...