Word: rematch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Anyone who's seen a boxing film will be able to predict the rest of The Wrestler. Randy gets one more chance: a 20-year rematch in Wilmington of his Ayatollah fight. Will he pass it up to save his life? (Not if there's gonna be an Act Three.) And the woman in his life - will Randy manage to connect with his estranged daughter (Wood), who hasn't forgiven him for abandoning her? (That's Act Two, where the only innovation is that the girl's mother is never mentioned). And will a local stripper, well played by Tomei...
...repeated Democratic calls for withdrawing troops from Iraq and devoting more time to building relationships with allies. Shaheen, who was the first female governor of New Hampshire, left the IOP last fall after announcing her decision to run against incumbent Republican Sen. John Sununu. The race sets up a rematch of the 2002 Senate race, in which Sununu beat Shaheen to take his current post. If Shaheen were to win, she would become the first-ever female senator from New Hampshire. —Staff writer Prateek Kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu...
...cruise to its American League East title. The Braves had staged one of the sport's come-from-behind astonishments to nip the San Francisco Giants on the last day of the season. This year all that separated the heavyweight champ and the top contender from their inevitable rematch were exhibition bouts against unranked palookas: the Chicago White Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies. No contest. The challengers would be, in boxing parlance, moiderized. And indeed, Toronto, spurred by starting pitcher Juan Guzman, laundered the Sox in six sleepy games. The White Sox were like boxing's white hope...
...It’s easy sometimes to lose your composure, but we didn’t.”The Crimson took two games from Cornell in the opening round of the ECAC playoffs and then beat Clarkson 3-0 in the semifinals to set up a rematch with St. Lawrence—the team that knocked Harvard out of the ECAC Tournament in 2007—in the conference finals.It took an extra 3:33, but an overtime breakaway goal from Cahow gave the Crimson a 3-2 victory and the tournament crown.All the momentum seemed...
...take the appropriate lessons from it, and make some adjustments.” Harvard will head to California for a series of spring break matches against Concordia, Redlands, and Cal Baptist before returning to the northeast on April 10th for a game at Connecticut College on April 10th. A rematch with the Bears looms on the horizon for April 15. “I think tonight’s score was not an indication of how close these two teams are,” said Brown head coach Felix Mercado. “I expect us to battle again...