Word: underdog
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...mine.And so this family tradition continued every year at the Beanpot, an annual exhibition tournament with nothing but bragging rights as the best college hockey team in Boston on the line. As the BU Terriers kept dominating the tourney year after year, I still came back rooting for the underdog Crimson, even if it meant trying to play “spot the other handful of Harvard fans” or sitting next to the BU band and putting up with their seldom-witty chants and fight songs.Now, with men’s hockey as my new beat, everything...
...Despite the fact that he was the party's vice presidential nominee in 2004, in a race against Clinton and Obama, two lavishly funded celebrity candidates, Edwards remains an underdog. "What Edwards has got to do is really thread the needle," says Mike Feldman, a former Gore adviser, who isn't affiliated with any of the campaigns. "It's possible [for him to win]. But what you see in his urgency in making his case is that time is running...
...that glum news has translated into low morale for a company that was once an undisputed titan of the consumer software business. "Microsoft was this monopoly, but now there has been this humbling. They have been cast as the underdog," says Greg Sterling, an Internet analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence...
...final score posted in the locker room comes not from this year but from 2003, when Harvard faced off against Dartmouth (2-4, 2-1 Ivy) in a similar situation—leading the Ivy League, approaching important games and facing an underdog opponent...
...Boston fans know better than any how fun it is how to play the underdog. While the Sox’ 2004 run to the World Series title was more about the extra-inning nailbiter than the seemingly-unstoppable streak, Bostonians and baseball fans rallied around a collection of loveable losers turned losers-no-longer...