Word: underdogism
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...cares? One Williams is sure to advance, and one is sure to lose. Try choosing instead between poor Jelena Dokic, whose own dad was escorted out of the All England Tennis Club for cell-phone smashing, intemperate flag-waving and profane anti-Clinton diatribes, or the real buzz underdog, publicity-deprived Lindsay Davenport, who actually prefers it that...
...Devils surprised the sleeker, Cup-defending Dallas Stars in the first game before falling, 2-1, in the second, both games played on the Devils' home ice, hard by the New Jersey Turnpike. An underdog New Jersey getting into fistfights with a cocky Texas may be the best conceptual state rivalry ever...
...likely to be taken with a pinch of salt among observers of South Asia's arms race - and among missile-defense skeptics. According to a number of unnamed military and intelligence sources cited by NBC, the U.S. now believes that far from being the region's nuclear underdog, Pakistan may have up to five times as many warheads as India and is way ahead of its rival in developing missile systems to carry them. Whereas it had originally been believed that Pakistan had between 10 and 15 nuclear devices while India had between 25 and 100, the NBC report suggests...
...November Republican presidential candidate Dewey ahead in University and national polls, but underdog Truman wins. Yale beats Harvard...
...Lazio is a good Long Island Italian, a local boy from the suburbs, and he's eager to play the scrappy underdog, taking the stage to the strains of "Rocky" and joking that he'd like a rematch with the pavement that split his lip Monday. Never mind that after only a week, he's statistically even in the polls, or that with state Republicans (and, you can bet, the party's national PACs) behind him in his quest to beat a Clinton, any Clinton, he'll have running money by the truckload. And at this point Lazio might want...