Word: spoilers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annual bunch of bowls saw a thriller in Pasadena, a retirement party in Tampa, and the controversy neatly removed from the running for the national championship. The Arizona State Sun Devils (11-1) lost a shot at a perfect season and their first national title when Ohio State played spoiler with their Rose Bowl win. The Buckeyes' Joe Germaine threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to wide-open David Boston with 19 seconds left. Just 1:21 earlier, Jake Plummer had appeared to stage another heroic rally to victory. His 11-yard run capped a 58-yard march...
Frustrated by their own football and soccer team's woeful play, well below their expectations, the Princeton fans will come out in full force and as rowdy as possible with nothing more than the hope of playing spoiler to Harvard, their annual rivals...
Because both Harvard (2-3, 0-2 Ivy) and Princeton (1-4, 0-2) have dropped their first two Ivy League games, the loser will be resigned to a spoiler's role for the rest of the season...
...final Ivy teams, Cornell (4-8, 0-3) and Yale (5-6, 1-3), are both in the depths of the league, but they are also the only two teams that have played both Harvard and Princeton. Nevertheless, all they can do now is perform the role of a spoiler for Brown, Dartmouth or Penn...
...Netscape, Lincoln devised a plan to stuff the graphics-rendering power of a $90,000 SGI Reality Engine--the machine that created the T. rex in Jurassic Park--into a $250 box. The result was a calculated delay. After missing its self-imposed deadline last summer, Nintendo played the spoiler last Christmas, cutting into sales of Sony and Sega's $300 32-bit machines by dangling the promise of a cheaper and even more powerful player this spring. Sales of new video-game systems, which had dropped from 27 million machines in 1992 to 10.5 million in '94, rose only...