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There’s nothing like kicking off the season with a competition where you’re slated as the underdog and you come out on top. Especially when the opponent is Yale. On Saturday, the cross-country squad traveled to New Haven, Conn., where the regionally ranked No. 8 men’s squad captured the Main Memorial Trophy for the second year in a row from the regionally ranked No. 6 Bulldogs. The women also raced—against Princeton, as well as Yale—taking second behind the Tigers. “I was pleased...
...This is the first game that we came in this whole season where we’re a little bit of the underdog and we took an underdog mentality,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said...
...Morales knows where his people's hearts lie. In 2002, when the former coca farmer first ran for President, the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia at the time, Manuel Rocha, made an off-the-cuff threat that Washington would withdraw millions of aid dollars should Morales win. Morales was an underdog at the time, but the threat drove his numbers through the roof - such is the anti-Yanqui sentiment in Bolivia. Indeed, some observers say it was Rocha's slip-up that forced a run-off between Morales and the eventual winner, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada...
...Achilles tendon. By the start of the summer, the protective cocoon around the hurdler had reached epic proportions. In June, Dayron Robles, a bespectacled Cuban, shaved one-hundredth of a second off of Liu's world record. The Chinese was going into the Beijing Olympics as the underdog. (Robles easily won his Beijing heat less than an hour before Liu was scheduled to compete, while medal contender Terrence Trammell of the U.S. failed to finish his race because of an injured...
...thing to be perceived as the underdog in sports, but quite another to enter as the stray. And that's how most of the world saw the squad of six Olympic neophytes on the U.S. men's gymnastics team, two of whom are eleventh-hour alternates; with one, Alexander Artemev, getting the call to suit up just a day before the competition began. Entering the team finals, the U.S. trailed China, the leader, and eventual gold medal winner, by 9.475 points and occupied a medal-distant sixth place. Yet the unexpected does tend to occur at the Olympics...