Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rounding out the starting nine for today's game, Dan Williams will handle the catching chores, Leigh Hogan will play first, Ric LaCivita will be calling the infield signals from second, and Ed Durso will be at short against the underdog Engineers. Unlike last year, however, today's contest with MIT should not be such a pushover for the Crimson...
Russell dominated the rebounding in the early going and sophomore Wayman Britt scored 12 points as the underdog Wolverines bolted to a 28-8 lead over the dazed Irish. Notre Dame staged a first-half comeback led by All-American John Shumate, who had 34 points on the evening...
...both cases a highly-touted and much-favored Crimson squad traveled to New Haven with visions of victory dancing in its head, only to be routed by the underdog Elis...
Bookies' Vigorish. For every one of them, the crucial number is the point spread. Bets on most other sports are based on traditional odds. Football books always quote a point spread designed to be large enough to attract some bettors to the underdog, yet tight enough to be a hedge for the bookies if the favorite has had a bad day. For the Super Bowl, Dolphin fans who put down their bets early will collect only if their team wins by six points or more. A Viking bet will pay off if Minnesota manages to lose by fewer than...
...case in point: the violently anti-Israeli opinions of Jesuit Radical Daniel Berrigan, once imprisoned foe of the Viet Nam War, longtime champion of the underdog, and soul brother of the late Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, American Judaism's most poetic Zionist. At a meeting of the Association of Arab University Graduates this fall in Washington, D.C., Berrigan excoriated Israel as "a criminal Jewish community. The creation of millionaires, generals and entrepreneurs... is rapidly evolving into the image of her ancient adversaries." Israel's "historic adventure, which gave her the right to 'judge the nations...