Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tigers (3-2, 2-1) will be trying to knock a chip off its own shoulder--put there by Columbia when the Lions turned the Tigers into The Victim to end their 44-game losing streak...
...They weren't prepared to play football. They were in a world of glamour and press. It was just a bad football game and we played worse," said Columbia football Coach Larry McElreavy, after Columbia had its one-game winning streak snapped by Yale this weekend...
...Dodgers ended a streak of 13 consecutive victories by the home team in the World Series. They did it the hard way, with top hitters Kirk Gibson and Mike Marshall unable to start because of injuries and catcher Mike Scioscia forced to leave with a twisted right knee in the fourth inning...
ESPN's telecast of last Saturday's game in Hanover had so many television timeouts that the game--which began at 12:30 p.m.--lasted longer than Columbia's losing streak...
...would not control. To Sheehan, who worked as a young wire-service reporter in Viet Nam and went on to obtain the Pentagon papers for the New York Times, Vann is the very symbol of the U.S. in Viet Nam: a courageous do-gooder masking a dark streak of amorality. Vann's story, as told by Sheehan after 16 years of painstaking reporting, is not just a biography but a sweeping history of a war that, Sheehan argues, the U.S. could never have...