Word: rematched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before ever contemplating a rematch with the Soviets, the U.S. hockey team must contend with the Czechs, the Canadians and the Finns, all seeded higher. Without the warmth of home ice and the chants of jolly jingoists, the Americans may require more than a miracle this time. "They're going to need all the breaks that we got, and more," says Herb Brooks, who coached the gold-medal team. "We had a lot of lucky bounces, and everything seemed to fall into place at the right time...
...Harvard hockey team, that time came last night at Providence College, in a rematch of last year's ECAC championship game. Grant Blair personally made sure of it, stopping 40 shots to snap his team's seven game losing streak with a 2-0 victory...
...NOTEBOOK: The Crimson heads south this weekend for the Providence Tourney. It's first-round game will be a rematch with Holy Cross, which beat Harvard, 95-48 on Saturday...
...Crimson travels to the Naval Academy next weekend for the Eastern Championships and a likely rematch with Brown. The Bruins are favored to win the tourney, but if Harvard could claim the second spot it might earn a bid along with Brown to the NCAA tournament. THE NOTEBOOK: The loss dropped the Crimson's record to 19-6 Brown upped its slate to 23-3.... The Bruins earned their victory despite the absence of stars Mike McDiarmid and David Todhunter...
...locals, is declared a draw. But the combatants have persuaded each other to switch positions. The minister resigns his post and faith, moves east and becomes a suave, voice-over pitchman in dog food TV commercials; the doctor takes up tub-thumping evangelical crusading. Late in the novel, a rematch is arranged. Once again, the debaters each wind up convinced that the other is right, but this time they embrace on the middle ground of skeptical belief. Tony gladly joins them: "My new mystique is the more constructive in that I am both cursing the darkness and lighting a candle...