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...passing that sparked this sole win were conspicuously absent from the first two frames, a fact that did not escape the players.“We came out really cold and really quiet,” Weintraub said. “The passing the first two games was really rough. It’s hard to run an offense like that.”The difference between games was quite clear in the team’s kill percentage, which rose from an abysmal .062 in the opening frame to .200 in the second game and .333 in the third.Sophomore...
...stay sane when watching a cornerstone franchise like the New York Knicks embody utter incompetence? -Brian Smith, Fort Worth, TexasWe've had teams go through bad competitive cycles. I know the Knicks have had a rough stretch, but I tend to be an optimist and think success is right around the corner...
When Americans want an iconic image of poverty, joblessness, alcoholism, and despair, they look to trailer parks. The rough French equivalent is the Nord Pas de Calais department, a swath of hardscrabble land that makes up about a third of France's northern border. While the neighboring Belgians remain the favorite butt of French jokes about simpletons, France has traditionally considered its indigenous northerners, known as Ch'ti, too miserable to even joke about. Instead, the Ch'ti were the folks filmmakers habitually went to for dismal, Zola-esque images of France's post-industrial decline and squalor. But that...
...Harvard baseball team is not in Kansas anymore, and that’s probably a good thing. The Crimson had a rough start to its 2008 campaign this weekend after getting swept in a three-game set against No. 16 Wichita State in Wichita, Kan. Harvard (0-3) was blown out by the Shockers (7-3) by a score of 16-3 in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday. The Crimson was on the brink of victory in the nightcap, but Wichita State rallied to tie the game and force it into extras. Yesterday’s series...
...people counted me out, but I was campaigning in states where many people felt like they had been counted out from time to time and had to keep fighting and coming back. I was endorsed on Saturday in Youngstown - a city that has had a pretty rough ride over the last three or so decades by Kelly "the Ghost" Pavlik, the champion [middleweight boxer], and I think that really symbolized what I was trying to do, which was to tell people I would be a fighter for them, because I know that they deserve to have someone who gets...