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...Harvard must wait anxiously to find out its post-season fate when the ECAC draw is determined this Wednesday...
...Smoltz, Kevin Millwood and Tom Glavine. The rest of the Yankee team is more balanced and more powerful than the Braves. And while Atlanta does have a snorting, 225-lb. alpha male lefthander, John Rocker, in the bullpen, the Yankees can turn to the impeccable Mariano Rivera, whose career post-season record--28 games, two runs allowed--enables New York manager Joe Torre to maintain his equanimity. And it's Torre's almost preternatural calm that keeps the players happy, which keeps the Yankees winning, which keeps George Steinbrenner out of the picture, which keeps Torre...
...unless you get to the World Series, a good year is completely obliterated. Two years from now, you ask who the hell was in post-season play, and nobody knows unless they were in the Series...
...means nothing. Despite the deja vu that accompanied the agony of one more missed opportunity for glory, Red Sox fans might actually have somewhere other than Babe Ruth on which to lay at least a portion of the burden of blame this year. From beginning to end, the 1999 post-season has been a showcase for the fallibility of many of the sport's officials, with umpires reaching a new pinnacle of incompetence during the Sox-Yankees series...
After being denied post-season play for four consecutive seasons, the Big Green (10-17-2, 6-14-2, 11th) is looking for an upset. And after three long rebuilding years, it may be Dartmouth's time to break out of the cellar...