Word: upstart
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...This season alone, McLeod has 564 yards on 102 carries (what!?) and 12 (yeah, 12) touchdowns. It’s understandable why the Bulldogs run three times as much as they pass—it works. The Yale ground game is simply too much for the upstart D-men to handle.Prediction: Yale 34, Dartmouth 14PRINCETON (2-1, 1-0) VS. NO. 21 HAMPTON (3-1)Factoid courtesy of football beat writer Brad Hinshelwood: This is only the second matchup between an Ivy team and a squad from a historically black college, and the first in 23 years. Hampton (most famous...
...only serious obstacle could be the same thing that helped Blanco edge out her upstart opponent in 2003 - the impression that Jindal is an overachieving bureaucrat who has little empathy for the poor in a largely poor state. A Rhodes scholar whose parents arrived in the U.S. from India just months before he was born, Jindal was selected to run the state's Department of Health and Hospitals by Blanco's predecessor, two-term Republican Mike Foster, at the ripe old age of 24. The Baton Rouge native guided the bloated department through a rough period of cutbacks, both...
...fashion world is all about timing, finding that perfect moment to launch the Next Big Thing. So it's not surprising that the upstart Italian clothing designer Nolita chose to unveil its latest ad campaign just in time for Europe's current round of catwalk shows for the spring-summer collections. But rather than politely join the parties in Milan and Paris, it has crashed them...
...national high school all-star tournament, would turn him into one of the most influential and controversial figures in the sport.His innovations included working with NIKE to pay both high school and college coaches to deck their players out with the Swoosh, convincing Phil Knight’s then-upstart sneaker company to “just do it” by throwing unheard amounts of cash at a kid from UNC named Michael Jordan after the 1984 draft, and founding the ABCD Camp in New Jersey and the Big Time Tournament in Las Vegas, both Meccas on any high...
...solution. But when the Italian Treasury eventually put most of its 49.9% share of Alitalia on the market, the terms of the sale came with so many strings attached that, one by one, all potential buyers (from U.S. private equity fund Texas Pacific to Russian carrier Aeroflot to upstart Italian airline Air One) ducked out of the bidding...