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...widow, Patricia, the case was not closed. Insisting that her husband was an innocent victim, she shopped for a lawyer willing to help her take on the police department and finally found Lawrence O'Donnell, 59, a onetime patrolman with a penchant for bold courtroom tactics and underdog clients (among them: three of the Brink's robbers). "He's a tiger," says one court official who has observed him over the years. "When he gets something in his teeth, he never lets go." For O'Donnell, Bowden's story touched a soft spot...
Another reason the Steelers have faltered this year has to be a mental disadvantage. It isn't easy to be the guy on top, especially five years in a row. Everybody's gunning for #1 spot, the initiative and motivation is all with the underdog. There is no special glory in retaining what you've already got, in maintaining the status quo. Perhaps the pressure of being number one finally got to the Steelers...
...League championship was concerned, the men's soccer season had ended weeks ago with a 2-0 drubbing at the hands of an underdog Princeton squad...
November 22, 1971: Harvard, the underdog, cruises to a 28-2 halftime lead on the basis of an 8-of-12, 143-yard two-touchdown performance from Crone and the excellent running of halfback Teddy DeMars. The Crimson wins going away, 35-16. The defensive backfield intercepts four Yale aerials. Yale finishes its season at 4-5. There are tears in New Haven...
Harvard, currently a two-point underdog against the Elis, will rely heavily on Durst to stop Yale tailback Rich Diana in the sold-out contest at Harvard Stadium. Game time is 12:30 p.m.; ABC (WCVB-TV, channel five) will broadcast the game live...