Word: streak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation's longest winning streak was in jeopardy when Harvard Coach Katey Stone called a timeout at 18:27 of the third. After Harvard took a 3-2 lead into the final period, UNH came back with two goals within 32 seconds of each other with less than five minutes left in regulation. At the same time, the Crimson was struggling to set up in the offensive zone...
PROVIDENCE--Any championship team must face some adversity during the course of a season. The No.1 Harvard women's hockey team, in danger of having its 27-game win streak snapped, turned to the forward with the big C on her jersey, A.J. Mleczko...
...defining event of DiMaggio's career occurred in 1941, when he got at least one base hit in 56 consecutive games--a feat of consistency no other player has come close to matching. Evolutionary biologist (and sports buff) Stephen Jay Gould once wrote that "DiMaggio's streak is the most extraordinary thing that ever happened in American sports...
Accomplishment is a wonderful thing; consistency is as well. And the merger of the two, expressed in DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941, yields the one unbreachable hitting record in baseball. In the nearly six decades since it was established, no one has come within 11 games of it. Was the streak a fluke? Not if you go back to 1933, when the 18-year-old DiMaggio, playing in the extremely competitive Pacific Coast League, hit safely in 61 straight games. Or look past that unfortunate day in Cleveland when third baseman Ken Keltner smothered two torpedoes...
...games, to compete at the highest level--and never lose--is unique. Some people compete when it's convenient. Chamique steps up when her team needs her." In a Jordannaire display in January, she and her team put an end to the 54 home-game winning streak of archrival University of Connecticut--with Holdsclaw scoring 25 points even though debilitated by a bad cold...