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...showed last year, when the team christened Leone’s first season in Cambridge with a big-time turnaround??Harvard won 10 games and made itself known as a force not to be overlooked in the Ancient Eight...
With five days left to the election and polls heavily favoring his opponent, Sen.ator John McCain is hoping for a miraculous turnaround??or a disastrous gaffe. In desperation, the Republican’s campaign has ferociously attacked the Los Angeles Times for its claim that releasing a video from 2003 of Senator Barach Obama would violate a confidentiality agreement between it and a source, and its subsequent decision not to make the video public...
...valuable faceoff wins can be, as Smith recovered to win 5-of-10 for the last 30 minutes. In the third quarter the team went 3-for-7 to match the Big Red score for score for the first time in the game. The fourth frame was a complete turnaround??the Crimson won 2-of-3 and outscored Cornell, 2-0. “To Harvard’s credit, where you would’ve thought we would’ve chipped away and worn down their defense [with the faceoffs and possessions], they came back...
...town on Jan. 13, so they confess, the real Princeton players are released from their lock-up, and the Tigers proceed to start 3-1 in the Ivies.OK, so it probably didn’t happen like that. But if there are better explanations for the dramatic Princeton turnaround??other than Joe Scott gaining magical powers—feel free to pass them along.Now let’s get to this weekend’s action.CORNELL (9-11, 4-2 Ivy) AT YALE (11-10, 3-3)Over the past 17 seasons, the Bulldogs’ league winning...
...research my book, Confidence, I analyzed the waxing and waning of confidence in dozens of organizations in various stages of success, decline, or turnaround??including Gillette, the BBC, and Nelson Mandela’s South Africa—to understand how leaders create the conditions for high performance. I studied 21 college and professional sports teams with long winning streaks or losing streaks, looking at what happened before and after pivotal games. I tested hypotheses about differences between perpetual winners and habitual losers through surveys of 1200 business leaders and 1500 high school athletes and coaches. It became...