Word: stretch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last 13 visits to Penn’s Franklin Field, dating back to 1982. “I’ve been here for 15 years, so I guess I prefer to see the glass as half full,” Murphy said, pointing out that that stretch exceeds his tenure as head coach. “We’ve won two out of our last three years down here. That’s all I care about.” The Crimson’s last win in Philadelphia came in the 2004 season, when quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick...
...Missing its starting forward’s consistency on both ends of the court, Harvard went 2-10 during that stretch to close out the year with a dismal 8-22 record overall...
...also marked by many missed offensive opportunities by the Crimson.Though the two teams may have already faced each other, both squads have come a long way since that meeting on September 17.“I think that Northeastern, like us, has been on a roll the last stretch of the season,” co-captain Nikki Rhodes said. “It will be a different game then the last time we played them. It’s going to be very intense.”The Huskies rolled through their conference tournament as the underdog...
...bearded and balding, bespectacled and tattooed, wait impatiently to have their copy of Dr. Skinner’s book, “Go Low,” signed by the man himself. The lucky ones even get to take a picture of this sacred moment. When Skinner speaks, followers stretch out their hands, their fingers pulled forward by his magnetic stage presence. They’ll do anything to get just a few inches closer to their counselor. But, as the narrator asks at the beginning of the video, who is this Dr. M. Skinner? I am inclined to believe...
...during the third World Series game between the city's two teams: the Oakland Athletics and the San Francisco Giants. Measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale, it severed electrical and gas lines, caused part of the Bay Bridge to fall off and collapsed a 1-mile stretch of an elevated Oakland freeway, trapping cars between layers of asphalt and concrete. Thirty-seven thousand people were injured and 1,000 people were left homeless, but only 63 deaths were directly attributed to the earthquake...