Word: upsetness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sports team is less pressing than, say, your marriage or mortgage, and it may seem ridiculous to tie your self-esteem to the actions of multimillionaire athletes who don't know you one bit, but you have to allow yourself to mourn a little. "It's natural to be upset," says Dr. Richard Lustberg, a clinical psychologist from Long Island and creator of the Psychology of Sports website. "Baseball is being taken away from you. It's difficult to handle, especially when watching Mets games have become part of your routine. There's some reality to it. It's like...
...other team. The Quakers offense is being exposed for its dependence on hobbled tailback Joe Sandberg. Without him, they’ve managed only 21 points in two games. Dartmouth, for all of its foibles, has been able to move the chains and could swing an upset in Hanover...
...good quality loan book, the hit it has taken from the subprime mess was unexpected. While French, German and Dutch banks have come clean in recent weeks over their direct exposure to low-quality U.S. real estate loans, it was the barren money markets those loans helped create that upset Northern Rock's model...
...Robinson for the middleweight crown of the world. This was doubly surprising, insofar as the mixed-race Englishman was boxing for a country where, just four years earlier, blacks - even if British-born - were not allowed to compete for the national championship. When Turpin pulled off a remarkable upset against the highly favored American - only Robinson's second loss in 135 fights - he seemed more than ever an emblem of the so-called British bulldog spirit. Within four years, though, he was facing rape charges in New York and being described by an American prosecuting attorney as a "jungle beast...
...They were upset because, well...they got locked...