Word: underdogs
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British soccer fans have their proud, blue-collar sections of Wembley Stadium. The French urge on the tennis underdog amid the dusty-red clouds of Rolland-Garros. Duke basketball is thunderously supported by the "Cameron Crazies." And there was nothing like the "Dawg Pound" in Cleveland before Art Modell whisked the Browns (er, Ravens) off to Baltimore...
Dartmouth's excited reaction reflected a new feature to the season: opponents that considered Harvard an underdog last year now treat the Crimson with more respect...
...water polo team entered the match on Saturday at Blodgett Pool as the underdog against Queens College--the team favored to be the Eastern Champions...
...Hoffa has the confidence of the underdog who knows the forces arrayed against him have only enhanced his populist appeal. Sitting down at Pick-a-Deli, a greasy spoon adjacent to the produce warehouse, Hoffa orders his usual: scrambled eggs ("Gimme lots of catsup for my eggs"), orange juice and wheat toast with grape jam. He's annoyed by comparisons with his father ("I have the name, but I'm also someone in my own right"), yet he recalls the patriarch vividly and talks about him at length. "It was draining to go see him" in jail, Hoffa says...
...that matter, the morning after the defending World Series champion Yankees lost the fifth and deciding game of their division series 4-3 to the Cleveland Indians. The win puts the Indians in the American League championship series for the second time in three years, this time as the underdog to the Baltimore Orioles...