Word: streaked
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Since its heartbreaking loss to Brown to open the 1999 season, the Yale football team has been on a roll, winning eight games in a row to post its longest winning streak since 1981. After a dismal 1-9 record in Coach Jack Siedlicki's first season at Yale in 1997, the Bulldogs showed vast improvement last year in going 6-4 to finish tied for second in the Ivy League. Siedlicki now looks to take the next step, with his team at 8-1 and poised to take a share of the league title...
After all, the Crimson was ranked No. 7 in the country, was riding a 10-game win streak and had plastered the Eagles 4-0 a short month...
...Crimson's Nov. 2 match against Maine, Lenicheck struck Harvard's first goal in the 22nd minute and assisted on two other goals to give the team its third straight win--its longest streak of the season. His four points against the Black Bears were the most by a Harvard player in a game this fall. His two assists gave him six for the season, making him the Crimson's assist leader for the second season...
Which brings me to the bottom line. As much as Harvard struggled, it still had plenty of chances to win. Take away one costly turnover in the neutral zone during overtime, and the unbeaten streak could have lived on. But how important is a winning streak, especially one from a season that is already over...
...Hampshire the people who come out to see McCain know their issues and aren't looking for a showman. They find a candidate who doesn't appear artful--he stalks around like a boxer waiting for the bell, twists his wedding ring on his finger, talks a blue streak and then says, "Whoa," as if snapping out of a trance. But he can be artful. Describing his opposition to the G.O.P.'s proposed across-the-board spending cut, he says, "It takes courage to eliminate pork-barrel spending," invoking his war-hero past without mentioning it. He sorts through...