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...presence felt in the Hockey East conference. Earlier this month, the Black Bears twice knocked off then-nationally ranked Boston University. Friday night, they tied last year's national champion--Michigan State--3-3, in East Lansing, Mich. The third-ranked Spartans came back the following night to upend Maine...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: The Russians Are Coming | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

...Dartmouth men's tennis team because the first squad to adopt the black and orange racket (Princeton's colors), hoping to capitalize on its advantages in order to upend the probable Ivy League champs, Harvard or Princeton, with the Princetonian invention...

Author: By Jon Askin, | Title: Princeton Prof Invents 'Perfect' Racket | 3/3/1983 | See Source »

...Mitch Reese reinforced the notion that he never loses big matches, smoothly outclassing Jamie Barrett for win at number four, while Charlie Duffy hung on at number five to upend another Tiger co-captain, Jon Moore...

Author: By John Rippey, | Title: Squash: Women Nab Howe; Men Lose | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

Like a karate expert, Allen sought to use the resources of the press to upend it. In a media blitz, he made the morning talk shows (a CBS limo waited outside NBC's Today show to take him on to CBS). He seemed to do best with television interviewers who knew the least about the facts. His blitz even extended to an appearance on one of those l-to-5 a.m. radio call-in programs, the Larry King show. Perhaps his toughest questioning came after Monday Night Football, where he appeared on an extended ABC Nightline that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Taking His Case to the Network Torquemadas | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...forget the second-half rallies in the Springfield match (when Harvard fallied two unanswered goals), and in the first Brown contest (when the booters notched three unmatched goals). For good measure, the Crimson concluded this year's successful campaign with four unanswered second-half goals to upend Texas A&M, and with a final overtime tally to edge Oregon for fifth spot at the Nationals...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Memories of a Championship Season | 12/1/1981 | See Source »

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