Word: spoilers
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...wonders: how many sales Honda will be able to squeeze out of the 2006 Civic Si, a sporty version of the basic model, featuring a 197-hp engine, 6-speed manual transmission, rear spoiler and other attributes dear to Gen-Y tire screechers? The basic Civic, after all, is one of the few cars that appeals to two distinct types of drivers: parents and teenage boys. In its basic form, it's a mom-mobile riding an unsinkable reputation for reliability and good fuel economy. But for more than two decades it's also been a hot youth car, often...
After going winless and finishing in last place in the four-team College Hockey Association last season, the Bobcats join the ECAC with low expectations and the chance to play spoiler. Quinnipiac has already logged some surprising results in this young season, knocking off Connecticut and Northeastern and tying Yale in its conference opener. Coach Michael Barrett brought in a strong recruiting class of young Canadians that should help the Bobcats improve its power play, worst in the nation last year...
...polloi. Its overarching story is the power struggle between Caesar (Ciarán Hinds), who has just defeated the Gauls, and his onetime friend Pompey Magnus (Kenneth Cranham). Season 1 traces Caesar's rise to power and the events leading to his assassination. (None of this should be a spoiler, unless the educational system has truly failed...
...Harvard’s proficiency at keeping its opponents out of the end zone rather than its own skill finding a way in that prevented the Crimson’s most successful season in more than a century from falling apart at the hands of an eager spoiler...
...point drubbing of Holy Cross in the 2004 season opener suggested that the promise of yesteryear might be realized in a second go-around, but an unexpected obstacle in week two threatened to derail any dream season. Eager to play the role of spoiler, Brown scored the contest’s first 21 points and rolled into halftime with a comfortable 31-10 lead...