Word: stiffs
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...work you’ve done all season. Everyone looks forward to the spring season and it’s definitely the best time of the year.” The team took to the warmer waters at Crown Point Shores Park at Mission Bay in San Diego against stiff competition—the field included defending national champion Washington as well as runner-up Stanford. While the varsity eight placed third in its division, the second varsity eight defeated Washington and Cal’s second boats to capture the Sharp Cabrillo Cup with a time...
...29th place finish in the competition. “It’s a whole different meet,” Rathgeber said of the NCAA meet. “You have to be on top of your game every single session and the competition’s so stiff.” This trip marked Rathgeber’s third time at the NCAA national championships, where he finished 11th in the 200-yard IM last year, gaining All-American status for the event. Rathgeber improved on that placement this year, finishing sixth in the 200-yard IM with...
...crack down on militants in Iraq's second-largest city. He and top security ministers traveled south as the operation got underway to supervise it in person. But the pretense that the operation was simply a crackdown on ragtag criminal elements fell by wayside as militias in Basra offered stiff resistance...
...scenes in the hospital and morgue were particularly ghoulish, with patients covered with synthetic wounds and bloody bandages wailing and moaning on dirty mattresses strewn about the floor. Even the British stiff upper lip seemed to quiver a bit as members of the response team tried to mediate in Spanish between injured countryman pleading for help and the local Dr. Giggles who wanted to take...
...wasn’t really stiff competition, but it was important that we try out rotations and try to play at an intense level,” sophomore setter Gil Weintraub said. “I don’t think we were able to do it the entire time, but at points subs came in and stepped up and really showed us their potential...