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...teams that is backing into the NCAAs is Boston College. Despite its No. 1 seeding in Manchester, N.H. and its overall No. 2 rank, the Eagles have lost five of their last six games and were bounced in the first round of the Hockey East Tournament by Boston University—a squad that struggled all year. And as a reward for its recent struggles, BC draws Niagara, the CHA champion. With all due respect to Niagara, it comes from a bottom-tier conference. College hockey is divided up into the sure-things (the CCHA, Hockey East and the WCHA...
Okay, now that you’re in, let’s focus on picks. For the most part, the early rounds will be dominated by rank. It’s far too rare for a 14-, 15- or 16-seed to advance past the first round to pick more than one upset. The exception to the rule is sticking with your favorite teams one round further than what’s reasonable, so God help you if you’re an Alabama State fan taking on No. 1 Duke. Same goes for those who have an unremitting hatred...
Harvard employees rank number seven on Sen. John F. Kerry’s, D-Mass., list of largest donors but have given relatively little to President Bush’s campaign, according to a report released last week by the Center for Responsive Politics...
Last fall, Local 615 sent Iscayau to represent the district at the national presidential endorsement meeting in Washington D.C., where the Union’s rank-and-file members handed Dean his first and last labor endorsement...
...real estate tycoon Donald J. (for John) Trump does not really loom colossus-high above the horizon of New York and New Jersey. He has created no great work of art or ideas, and even as a maker or possessor of money he does not rank among the top ten, or even 50. Yet at 42 he has seized a large fistful of that contemporary coin known as celebrity. There has been artfully hyped talk about his having political ambitions, worrying about nuclear proliferation, even someday running for President. No matter how farfetched that may be, something about his combination...