Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is truly a make-or- break weekend for the Crimson, and despite Yale's better record, in baseball, the underdog can always defeat the favorite on a given day. Unfortunately, the Crimson will need a pair of those given days to make up ground on the first place Bulldogs...
...that was then. In 1988 Tyson's life spun out of control. There was the marriage to Robin Givens, the death of Jacobs, a pact with King, a car crash, the firing of Rooney. By the time Tyson fought 42-to-1 underdog Buster Douglas in February of 1990, he was out of shape, and Douglas KO'd him in the 10th round...
...start of Cock-a-doodle-doo, Philip Weiss' smart first novel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 295 pages; $21), he--Jack Gold--has just finished working on an underdog's losing campaign for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York. The winner is popular Early Quinlan, who had been Secretary of State in a Republican Administration but, when times changed, switched parties with speed and grace...
Then there was the big disappointment three years ago. RPI--a big underdog--came into Bright Hockey Center and shocked ECAC regular-season champion Harvard in a 4-3 overtime quarterfinal thriller. Because of that game, the ECAC changed to its current best-of-three format...
After Rutgers took the hard-fought third set, Harvard once again shocked the volleyball cognoscenti by taking a bid lead against the Scarlet Knights in set four. But Rutgers, in a perversion of the classic no State '83 underdog formula, rallied back. Again, though, the Crimson refused to be the Boston Red Sox, and held on to win the set, 15-13, and even the match...