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...puts horse racing two-thirds of the way to its first Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978. Coming on the hooves of his win in the Kentucky Derby, Smarty Jones might be one of the most remarkable horses ever to get this far. He's certainly one of the unlikeliest...
...about Reese? The freshman from Pittsburgh hadn’t scored a goal all season. But playoff hockey tends to make heroes out of the unlikeliest players, and here was Reese, sending a just-barely-good-enough snap shot over the purportedly error-free glove of Howard with 2:59 left in the first...
...cooking with gas. Forget Cate, Nicole or any of the other expected hopefuls - Harvek Milos Krumpetzki, an eccentric Polish migrant with pallid skin and ears protruding like Duchamp urinals, is Australia's unlikeliest Oscar contender. Last month the fictional Krumpet's life epic, from his Polish pine-forest birth before World War II to his Alzheimer's fug in a Melbourne retirement village, garnered his Claymation creator a nod for Best Short Film (Animated) at next week's Academy Awards ceremony. Up against toon titans Pixar, Disney and Blue Sky, Elliot and his tragicomic creation, who endures Tourette's syndrome...
They take their football seriously in India's southern state of Goa?and last week that led to two of the unlikeliest results in sporting history. Going into the final round of matches in the state's second division, the two top teams, Curtorim Gymkhana and Wilfred Leisure, were tied for first place on points, with only goal difference separating them. At stake: promotion to the first division. Wilfred needed to score seven more goals in their game than Curtorim, who were playing simultaneously in a different location. By halftime that lofty target was within reach. Wilfred led Dona Paula...
...Crimson is 1-3-1 at those road sites this season, the lone win coming at Colgate—the unlikeliest quarterfinal opponent of the bunch...