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...hugest challenge as a team is breaking out of the mentality that teams should, in theory, beat us,” junior midfielder Jen McDavitt said. “We have a lot of underdog fire, but we need to forget who they are. We can be a comeback team, and we have been like against Brown last week, as long as we think...
...with Felipe Alou and later Frank Robinson at the helm they found ways to win, sometimes. Good sports fans root for either the home team or the underdog, and in the Expos, Montreal had both. I—we—loved them...
Throughout the four periods of highly competitive play, 10th-seeded Harvard (2-4) had been giving the packed stands at Blodgett Pool something to cheer about. The clear underdog in the match-up against No. 1 seed Navy, Harvard was two seconds away from forcing an extra frame against the Midshipmen. But on a controversial goal in the last moments of the game, Navy took the victory...
...beautifully, and not just by taking the focus off the turmoil in Iraq. It fed their story line that they are once again fighting as outsiders. When you control the White House, both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, it's a neat trick to act like an underdog. But to the extent that the Republicans could turn the Liberal Media into the Establishment enemy, liken themselves to Thomas Paine and Martin Luther, nail their charges to the door, distribute their pamphlets, rally their faithful, it was in the interest of giving their base a tyrant to battle...
Early last century, before opinion polls were invented, the U.S. press tracked the ups and downs of a huge political-betting market centered on Wall Street. According to University of North Carolina economist Paul Rhode, bettors were remarkably prescient: in 12 presidential elections between 1896 and 1940, the underdog won only once. Today Americans can "wager" on elections online through the Iowa Electronic Markets, a small-scale futures exchange that lets people buy contracts on candidates based on their estimated chance of victory. (At press time, George W. Bush led John Kerry 54% to 46%.) Since its 1988 launch...