Word: superteam
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...murmured occasionally during this gentle rain of nostalgia that, although Yale led in the series, 54-37 (there had been eight ties), its '83 warriors had underwhelmed eight opponents thus far and won only once. Harvard, with an upper-middling 5-2-2 record, loomed like a superteam...
...reappeared, along with its scruffy little half brothers, xenophobia and chauvinism. In an odd but exactly appropriate way, the new sentiment was crystallized most purely in Americans' jubilation over the U.S. hockey team's performance in the Olympics-the Huckleberry Finn American underdogs whipping the Soviet superteam and then going on for the gold medal...
...memorable craps party. Car bumpers are plastered with "I Am a Dol-Fan" stickers; "Dial-a-Dolphin" programs are stealing the play away from local disk jockeys. Raving fans pack the Orange Bowl (capacity: 80,010) to wave white handkerchiefs at their rugged young superteam. The reason is simple: more than anything Miami loves a winner, and Shula's Dolphins are the biggest winners in pro football. Starting the season with bleak memories of the 24-3 birching administered to them by the Dallas Cowboys in last January's Super Bowl, the Dolphins have reeled off twelve victories...
...N.B.A. history: Guard Jerry West and Forward Elgin Baylor. Then in 1968 when they acquired the highest scorer of all, 7-ft. 1-in. Center Wilt Chamberlain, it was generally conceded that they would be invincible. All that the Lakers proved, however, was that supershots do not make a superteam. Over the past eleven seasons, Los Angeles has advanced to the finals seven times without ever winning the championship. This year many of the preseason prognosticators gave up on the veteran team, predicting that the Lakers would fail to win their Pacific Division championship. Now, with nearly half the season...
...predicted last year that Harvard's squash dynasty would continue. Penn, claiming the top two intercollegiate players and a strong returning squad, was billed as more than just an intercollegiate champion. The Quakers were to be a "superteam" and a new dynasty. But the Quakers were forced to let their champagne age in the locker room, for a bunch of untested Harvard sophomores and juniors humiliated the Quakers on their own home court...