Word: upset
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Colbert recalled telling his producers after the filming that Frank “was having a great time” and was just “playing upset...
Although UMD has won only one of its last six games, underestimating them would be unwise. That lone win merely came against the No. 1 ranked team in the country and could prove to be the upset of the season in collegiate women’s hockey. One week ago, the Bulldogs shut out Wisconsin, 2-0, snapping the Badgers’ 26-game unbeaten streak...
...used to swim with Kasatka," says John Hargrove, formerly a senior trainer of killer whales at SeaWorld California. "She's an amazing animal. This incident doesn't make her a bad whale. People need to understand that animals can get upset or frustrated just like people and just like your cat or dog. But when it's a 6,000- or 8,000-lb. killer whale, the stakes are much greater." Hargrove has been dragged down by captive orcas himself while employed as a supervisor at a French marine facility that is unaffiliated with SeaWorld. "Those killer whales never...
Against its toughest opponent thus far in this young season, the Harvard women’s basketball team showed inspired stretches of play that had fans thinking “upset.” But when the final buzzer sounded, the team still had nothing in the win column to show...
...strengths as a candidate. Orphaned at birth in Pittsburgh and adopted and raised by an alcoholic mother, he offers just the kind of unique personal narrative that could help him connect with voters. He's been a popular governor, coming back from a 20-point deficit to win an upset victory in the gubernatorial race in 1998 - in the process becoming the first Democrat in 30 years to take the statehouse. He captured 53% of the vote in 2002 only two years before John Kerry narrowly lost the state to President Bush. He's had some major successes, particularly...