Word: spoilers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another team with just two to go, and was officially eliminated from contention with last week's loss against Penn. Of course, after much of the team's fate was sealed in Providence, players took some heart in looking on their calendars and realizing another option--playing the "spoiler" and sealing the title for the Bears. You see, the team sharing first place with Brown is the Yale Bulldogs. If Yale wins on Saturday, they get their first piece of an Ivy title since 1989. If they lose, and Brown wins (they are playing Columbia, one of the weaker teams...
...Harvard, in the role of spoiler, is playing for respect, and respect can be the biggest motivator...
With the win, Brown's chances of getting a bid to the NCAA tournament improved. Harvard missed a chance to play spoiler to the Bears' season...
...each his own. Trump scoffs at the usual reasons for launching a third-party bid. He says he's not just looking to get his hands on the party's $13 million in federal matching funds or to have a podium at the debates or to gain spoiler status. "I'm not running for some measly 22%. I will only do this...
Ventura is now charged with bringing the Reform Party from the sidelines of American politics to the mainstage--to make it a dominant fixture of a three-party system, instead of the occasional spoiler for one or the other parties...