Word: rematched
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Harvard's "C" team has a pair of contests scheduled this week. Thursday's game is a rematch with the Business School, which last week defeated them 11-9. The third team faces the Wesley "B" team Friday...
...line drive from a cop's bat stung the pitcher. The kids tried to get the cops' crew-cut pitcher ejected for throwing a greaseball, and the police puffed on imaginary marijuana cigarettes and floated around the base paths. Law-and-order prevailed 24-5, but a rematch was scheduled, and there is talk of having the competitors join an amateur softball league...
...with the Orange Order parades, which often seem less a remembrance of the Boyne than a rematch. Last week in Belfast, 1,500 British soldiers carried out a house-to-house search, collecting 130 pistols, rifles and machine guns, plus 25,000 rounds of ammunition. Young Catholics were said to be getting arms and advice from the outlawed Irish Republican Army...
...round to win the middleweight title. He lost the crown to Jake LaMotta nine months later when he tore a left shoulder muscle in the first round, then gamely fought on virtually one-handed until he was unable to answer the bell for the tenth round. Scheduled for a rematch with LaMotta, the superstitious Cerdan consulted a fortuneteller, had Marcel Jr. spit in his hand, donned his lucky blue suit and boarded a plane for the U.S. in October 1949. "I win the title back," he said, "or I die." The Air France flight crashed in the Azores, and Cerdan...
...possible that Mike Dann will not be around for a rematch next year. He says that the years of 17-hour workdays and "all the press criticism" are beginning to get to him. He does not know exactly where he will go, or when. "It could be days, weeks, or even years," he said last week. All he really needs, as a sign-off, would be a truce luncheon and a first meeting with his NBC nemesis, Paul Klein. As might be expected, Klein has already vetoed any such possibility. "I don't want to meet Mike," he says...