Word: spoilers
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...League Championship outright and finish the year undefeated and untied for the first time in over 80 years. This is the last chance for Harvard’s seniors to defeat Yale, an accomplishment they have not yet attained. Yale will try to play the spoiler. But this year, there’s no Eric Johnson...
...League Championship outright and finish the year undefeated and untied for the first time in over 80 years. This is the last chance for Harvard’s seniors to defeat Yale, an accomplishment they have not yet attained. Yale will try to play the spoiler. But this year, there’s no Eric Johnson...
...brilliance at times this season. The Big Green started the year on a tear, losing to reigning Ivy Champion Penn (5-0, 3-0) by one point, after a PAT was blocked with just over a minute to go. Then, one week later, Dartmouth came through in the spoiler role by upending Yale...
...with a third party we might have a chance at a two-party system again. I don’t think Nader ran a particularly strong campaign. There’s a tendency for both parties, for everybody in the process, to treat a third party candidate as a spoiler. And as long as that mentality is with us, the third party candidate doesn’t really get a fair hearing...
...wintry abyss of Jan. 18. Maybe. Producer Martin Bregman (The Bone Collector), who's had Nash in development for 20 years, blames the delay on getting the special effects right, but an early screening in January made it clear that reshoots wouldn't be a bad idea. Spoiler website Ain'tItCoolNews slammed the film for "lame action and almost no laughs." Wisecracks a la Dr. Doolittle and The Nutty Professor were "nowhere to be found." Bregman says he's not worried about the $100 million project. "Not me. It's not my money." Is that supposed to be funny...