Word: postseason
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pending a berth in the postseason ECAC tournament, the foursome may have played in their last game in a Harvard uniform...
...upon the mound and tell sad stories of the death of NETWORK BASEBALL. CBS, the tale begins, spent a whopping $1 billion for the right to telecast major league games for four years. Now, after sustaining huge losses from last year's abbreviated postseason, the network seems to wish the sport would just go away. Regular-season telecasts have been reduced to a meager handful. Pregame shows during the league championship series were entirely eliminated, to minimize the ratings damage. The games themselves have featured such distractions as Andrea Joyce and Lesley Visser roaming the stands for human-interest angles...
Outdueled by Yale in the last match of the regular season, the Harvard men's and women's fencing teams are looking forward to making it up in postseason play...
...postseason bowls have proliferated to 19, such major corporate tie-ins have begun to be the norm. Among them: the Federal Express Orange Bowl, Mazda Gator Bowl, Poulan/Weed Eater Independence Bowl and Domino's Pizza Copper Bowl. In El Paso sports reporters and other locals persisted in calling the John Hancock Sun Bowl by its old name, the Sun Bowl. So last year the insurance company got the name changed. Now it is officially the John Hancock Bowl...
...week in a draw. In an unprecedented reversal, the NCAA lifted the ban it had imposed on the Runnin' Rebels, which would have prohibited the 1990 collegiate champions from defending their title this spring. In exchange, UNLV agreed to forfeit live-TV appearances next season and sit out 1992 postseason games...