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...Making a splash in first-year coach Brian Baise’s playoff debut will be anything but easy. Playing the role of underdog perhaps a little too well, the Crimson enters tonight’s contest with an undermanned staff of only nine players to its opponent?...
...great underdog story, FlyBy should tell you that the Crimson sparkled in its nationals debut, trouncing more seasoned squads on its way to the medal stand. Instead, it acted how any group would in the face of exciting new surroundings: the squad ran out onto the mat for preliminaries and got nervous...
...available to win his heart - should cue you that Observe and Report isn't going to have the courage to follow the premise to its logical conclusion. As ballsy as the movie is, it has one undescended testicle. It's bound to turn this disturbed cur into an underdog, and then a top dog. The bitter aftertaste that was permitted, in fact encouraged, in '70s movies is virtually verboten today. A feel-good ending is mandatory, even in a comedy like this, which promises to be transgressive because it's the first major-studio job for a director with...
...purchased the domain name TrueWest.info and already has 10 people onboard. His wife, Seattle-based freelance journalist Sally Deneen, has been working with several P-I reporters to develop the Seattle Post Globe, a site, she says, that will be devoted to keeping alive what she calls the scrappy, underdog spirit of the paper, either as a cooperative or a nonprofit. Says Deneen: "It just seems, to some of us, at least, that ad-based journalism is sending journalism down the wrong road." Also trying to move into the space created by the demise of the P-I is SeattleCourant.com...
...Facing top-ranked Wisconsin in 2007 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the underdog Harvard squad took the Badgers to four excruciating overtimes before finally succumbing to defeat in the 128th minute of play...