Word: rag-tag
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...absence of a professional circuit in Communist countries means that the best players in the nation compete in the Olympics, a luxury not available to the Americans and Canadians. Thus it was truly remarkable in 1980 when a bunch of rag-tag collegians thumped the Russian National Team, which routinely beat the NHL All-Stars...
...incredible 35-2-1 national championship season of 1984-'85, the professional hockey teams have grabbed 11 players, mostly underclassmen, from that Engineer squad. According to Addesa, it was his four remaining seniors, the "ones who were left behind" by the "play-for-pay" crowd, which enabled this rag-tag collection of freshmen to advance to the semis...
WHEN I FIRST heard Harvard people bragging about their great diversity, I thought they were talking about some kind of graduate school for scuba divers. I soon discovered that what they were referring to was the rag-tag, motley, kaleidoscopic, crazy-quilt, incongruous mixture of humanity that gathers each year in Cambridge to pursue its lofty goals...
...relief. The only team in the division whose record matches up with Boston's against the East is the Toronto Blue Jays. The Red Sox are certainly not one of baseball's all-time great teams, but for the rest of the year they should beat up on the rag-tag collections of spare parts they're competing against...
...playground. The actors swing on ropes, on tree-limbs, on tires, they wear buckets, newspapers or cans as hats, hub caps as shields, they make wooden boards, wired sheets, plastic boards into musical instruments, and much more. While their ingenuity with props would impress any junkman, coupled with the rag-tag costumes they actually complement the patchwork nature of the entire show...