Word: shocker
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This, of course, would have been a shocker if Brown hadn’t believed it was going to start 1-0 in 2000 or 2001 when it held 17-7 halftime leads only to lose 42-37 and 27-20, respectively, or in 2002, when it jumped out to an 18-0 lead only to lose...
Dartmouth nearly pulled off the shocker of the weekend, driving 77 yards for a touchdown as time expired to pull within 17-15 of No. 10 Colgate. The Big Green’s subsequent two-point conversion failed—an attempt that wouldn’t have been necessary had Dartmouth not botched a PAT earlier in the fourth quarter. The Big Green defense, however, won its battle, limiting last year’s Payton Award winner, running back Jamaal Branch, to just 115 yards (which, for Branch, is an off-day) and the Raider offense as a whole...
Another possible “shocker of the week” nearly took place in Dayton, Ohio, as Yale found itself deadlocked with the mid-major Flyers at 17 a piece heading into the fourth quarter. The Bulldogs were bailed out not by Payton Award candidate and quarterback Alvin Cowan but rather by running back Robert Carr, who had a monster day with 172 yards rushing and scored the game winning touchdown early in the fourth. And that’s great news for Yale, which needed Carr to step up this season in order to create a quarterback-running...
...ultimately, what happened at this game truly did not deserve to emerge as so much of a surprise, an upset, a shocker, whatever you want to call...
...Steel Works. Abdullah also indefinitely postponed what would have been the country's biggest infrastructure project, a $3.8 billion replacement for the dilapidated railway system awarded by Mahathir in his final days in office to a consortium led by businessman Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary. "It's really been a shocker how far and how fast Abdullah has gone," comments a senior Western diplomat in Kuala Lumpur. "I think he's really changing the way people look at the country...