Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they can do it, they'll be remembered instead for their persistence throughout their unprecedented (in New Haven) eight-game losing streak and their turnaround in the last two weeks to win a Big Three title...
...course Fighting Irish fans prefer to remember the intervening year when Notre Dame broke USC's 23-game winning streak enroute to the National Championship. Eight times since 1926, the National Championship has been decided in a USC-Notre Dame game. To win this year's game. 27-6. Notre-Dame pulled a psychological trick out of the bag. The school colors are gold and blue, but the Irish showed up on the field dressed in green jerseys for only the third time in 20 years. The last time they wore green was the last time they beat...
...typical all streak," Fadule said of his third collegiate catch. (That's the equivalent of a touch-football QB saying. "Everyone go deep") "The ball sort of hung up in the wind and I just followed...
...least of all his biographer. Johnson regards her subject without illusion. She knows that inspiration can arrive and vanish without cause and that Hammett's chief tragedy was in holding himself accountable for something beyond his gifts or character. Even so, as she sees it, he showed a streak of heroism, not in his work so much as in "the long blank years that prove the spirit." That kind of exit line is equal to the worst of Hammett's life-and the best of his work...
Junior striker Kelly Landry saw her nine game goal-scoring streak stopped. "It wasn't a great season for the team; that's all that matters," Landry said, lamenting the season's outcome, rather than talking of her own success. "Considering the injury situation we have done very well this season. We proved ourselves in some games, and we were disappointing in other, like Princeton and on Saturday." The women booters lost several players to injuries during the season, and were never completely healthy since their first game...