Word: underdogism
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...reason that the Black Bears were seeded atop the East regional bracket and ranked No. 1 overall in the last USCHO.com poll. And as a team that only qualified for NCAAs because of the automatic bid that goes to the winner of the ECAC, Harvard is considered a serious underdog in tonight’s contest...
...team was an underdog in every sense. It underperformed during the regular season, had little big-game experience and was very young. But it also had one big advantage: its own ignorance...
...best-of-three quarterfinal series went the full three games, the only exception being Harvard’s sweep of Brown. The end result featured two favorites and an underdog advancing, setting up an unpredictable Final Four in Albany. Harvard will take on Dartmouth in one semifinal, while Colgate will play Clarkson in the other...
...tired of second place. A week after he and the Harvard men’s squash team nearly pulled off the greatest upset in recent squash history in what turned into a 5-4 loss to Trinity at the CSA Team Championships, Broadbent once again found himself as the underdog trying to knock off the defending champion. And just as was the case the week before, the underdog put up a valiant fight before succumbing to the best in college squash...
Like most movies, this one favors the underdog, the insurgent, the solitary hero against the powerful. Gibson's Jesus is a traditional movie rebel. He shows steely contempt for authority, chastens his mates for being slackers and argues with his Father--the God who sent him on this sacred suicide mission. This Jesus is so human he almost forgets he's divine. The grotesque pain he endures in his last 12 hours nearly blinds him to his task of redeeming mankind by dying for it. His memories are not those of a distant godhead but of his youth in Nazareth...