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...NOTEBOOK: Look for the Crimson at Blodgett Tuesday night as it faces an underdog team from Boston University... The aquamen get a third shot at Brown in two weeks at the New England Championships, to be hosted by Harvard...
This is not a movie that benefits from second thoughts. It has the structure of a conventional sports story: an agreeable underdog team known as the California Dolls and managed by a comically shrewd eccentric (Peter Falk) overcomes various tribulations to achieve a morally satisfying-and suspensefully staged-climactic confrontation with their longtime nemeses, the Toledo Tigers. Since the sport in question is something called female tag-team wrestling, there is a certain novelty of milieu and characters that has its entertainment value...
That was three years ago, and ever since, a favored Harvard squad has annually dropped a game it should have won. It has become a tradition, losing to a mediocre Dartmouth team, as if Joe Restic was playing Simon Bar Sinister, to the fired-up Big Green's Underdog...
Clark Kent may be a champion of the underdog, but this is one David vs. Goliath story that will never appear in the Daily Planet. Back in 1979, student editors at Chicago's Richard J. Daley College decided to change their campus newspaper's name from the ominous sounding The Obstacle to the more light-hearted Daley Planet, after Superman's favorite newspaper. Funny? Certainly not to DC Comics, a division of Warner Communications Inc., which owns the Superman trademark...
Half time at the soccer match: the trailing side troops wearily into the dressing room, down by three points, battered, bruised and certain that their opponents own the referee. The time is World War II, the place is Paris, and these are the underdog's underdogs: a team of P.O.W.s and concentration camp victims, recruited to play the Germans' best and, by their inevitable loss, offer some more spurious proof of Aryan superiority...