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...sweep of the Quakers and Tigers will guarantee the Crimson at least a share of the Ivy title...
Harvard really asserted its status as a national contender during a stretch in mid-February when it defeated Brown in overtime, and then followed that with a two-game sweep of ECAC challenger and then-No. 3 St. Lawrence...
Well, Boston will have to put its masochism on hold for a few more days. In a reversal so dramatic and historic that the New York Daily News ran the headline HELL FREEZES OVER, the Sox roared back from a three-game deficit to sweep four games from the Yanks--the first time that had been accomplished in baseball's 102-year postseason history--to win the American League Championship Series (ALCS). They advanced to the World Series against another old nemesis, the St. Louis Cardinals, who defeated the plucky Houston Astros in a similarly adventurous seven-game fracas. With...
...write a whole new heroic tale. And Sox fans everywhere can safely bid farewell to a painful history that had come to be known as a truth foretold. After lashing the Yankees in four straight games, the Red Sox went on to slaughter the Cardinals in a four game sweep. Boston?s height of glory came when they vanquished their archrival at Yankee Stadium on October 20. The Cardinals were an after dinner mint of sorts - and even the Sox didn?t chew on it gracefully. Both teams had low moments in the brief series, but the Sox pitching prevailed...
...Yankees coasted to a three-games-to-none lead, battering the Red Sox in Game Three, 19-8. Yet any true baseball fan had to know that the Yankees wouldn’t complete the sweep. No Yankees-Red Sox series could end that quietly. The Red Sox stormed back, defying history, as Boston shut down what had been an unstoppable Yankees offense, and finished their astonishing comeback by cruising to a 10-3 Game 7 win, devastating Yankee fans...