Word: underdog
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...known best as a closer, the master of the bitter end who can wring important victories from defeat. He fought pitched, sometimes noble, usually hopeless battles on behalf of Eugene McCarthy, Ed Muskie, Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson. And in most cases, he took the fight for his underdog candidate all the way to the party's convention, where he tried every trick the rules allowed--and some they didn't--in the hope a miracle would happen. It never did. But in the process, Ickes helped rewrite those rules into the ones that now govern the way Democrats choose...
...endorsed a complex plan that awarded delegates based on a candidate's proportion of the vote in every state. By doing away with winner-take-all primaries, the new rules prevented a front runner from wrapping up the nomination with a handful of wins in big, delegate-rich states. Underdog candidates could stay alive through the primaries, and perhaps even win the nomination, by collecting delegates in every contest, whether they won it or not. It would be two decades before an underdog turned front runner named Barack Obama would take full advantage of those rules. If Clinton's victories...
Enter the Death Star, otherwise known as Hulu hulu.com) When NBC Universal and News Corp. announced last year that they were jointly starting their own YouTube knockoff, the guffaws were loud and long: everybody who's ever seen a made-for-TV movie knows that the scrappy underdog always beats the corporate Goliath. But oddly enough, Hulu, which came out of beta in March, is a gorgeous piece of interface design laid over a technically very sweet video player. The offerings are eclectic but compelling: a handful of current shows (The Office, The Simpsons, 30 Rock), a larger handful...
Plus, Boston fans need to stop playing the underdog card. What do the Patriots do all the time? Win. The Celtics? Likewise. The Red Sox are no different. After two World Series titles in the past four years, here’s a newsflash Boston fans: we don’t care. Even Fox chose to air NASCAR over the Red Sox-Yankees match-up last weekend...
...circumstances random chance simply has more influence than reason can account for. Take, for example, Russell Pleasant, who beat out more than 3 million other brackets to win ESPN’s $10,000 prize for the highest score in 2006. When asked how he knew to pick heavy underdog George Mason to reach the Final Four, he explained that he “slightly confused them with George Washington...