Word: underdogs
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...tournament] is really anybody's ballgame," Harvard coach Kathy Delaney Smith said. "There is no underdog...
Rooting for Yale has a distinctly subversive flavor here, and that's part of its appeal. I like rooting for Yale. It is perpetually that second-or third-best alternative, that underdog (no pun intended) school with just the right amount of respectability with a difference...
Good for them. Probably also closet Green Bay and Buffalo football fans. Like the three guys who have "N-B-C" painted across their bare chests at 20-below while the rest of America cringes at the thought of another 12-point underdog in the Super Bowl...
Harvard needs to go into every game like it did against Cornell. It needs to play every down on defense as if it were a 21-point underdog. It needs to play every down on special teams as if it were a 21-point underdog. It needs to play every down of offense as if it were a 21-point underdog. And, to boot, it needs the luck of a 21-point underdog...
When it came to 1987, I picked the underdog-slash-Mets vanquisher--and though I was too nervous to watch Kirk Gibson (and hence missed his titanic blow during a fidgety channel-change), the memory lingers with all the resonance of having been in Dodger Stadium myself...