Word: postseason
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...although these "mini giants" are often the product of overzealous ESPN programming and are stomped out quickly in postseason play, they are still formidable opponents for their regular-season victims...
...America's Team, it was the beginning of a decade of galling frustration. They were to have precious few playoff opportunities to put on their ten-gallon hats and lizard-skin boots, pose by their pickups and act nasty. Or ogle the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders as they sashayed their postseason routines across the hallowed petroleum-byproduct turf at Texas Stadium. Instead, there was Sunday upon Sunday filled with ignominy and gloom. No divisional championships. No Super Bowls...
Your team must win to take home the individual postseason honors. That's the lesson the Harvard men's soccer team learned yesterday...
...when the postseason rolled around, Winfield carried a huge monkey on his back, a veritable gorilla. In 1981, his first season with the Yankees, his stellar play brought the American League championship back to the Big Apple. He hit a patch of ice in the World Series, however, eeking out only one hit in 22 at bats. This prompted the first of Steinbrenner's many diatribes against his star, in which he coined the epithet Mr. May, a contrast with the high priest of pressure and Yankee immortal, Reggie Jackson, a.k.a. Mr. October...
...Stanford, early-season conditioning with a track coach gave the women's team the legs to run away from Western Kentucky in the final, 78-62. Like Duke, Stanford is coached by one of the game's best strategists, Tara VanDerveer, who has a 16-3 postseason record. The dominance of two research-oriented universities is rare in big-time college sports. Will it rehabilitate the scholar-athlete ideal...