Word: winningest
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...team begins down the long road to a ninth straight title, it has the winningest program in collegiate squash egging it along...
...captain Megan Basil, Alison Seanor, Sarah Brandt and Karun Grossman round out the largest senior class the program has ever graduated. They likely will also end their careers as the winningest class in Harvard women's basketball history...
...mogul to pride himself on wearing tattered flannel or flying coach. A man with a taste for brandy at $180 a shot, DeBartolo, 51, is known for sparing no cost when it comes to getting exactly what he wants. How to turn a losing team into one of the winningest in the NFL? Recruit the best players, whatever the price. How to secure their devotion to the team? Lavish them with trips to Hawaii, $10,000 diamond victory rings, and endless supplies of roses and gift certificates for their wives and girlfriends. How to get the city of San Francisco...
Indeed, Marshall has the winningest football program in America in the '90s. But in the '70s, Marshall's was the losingest team in the nation--22 wins in 10 years. The Herd had one 12-game losing streak and two 10-game losing streaks. A petition was even circulated around campus to drop football. Had Marshall done that, though, the tragedy would have deepened. "Seventy-five people would have died in vain," says Morehouse...
...died Friday at 84. Some called him "Bantam Ben," because he stood a slight 5-foot-8. Some called him "The Hawk" for the way he analyzed a course. But the Scots called him "The Wee Ice Mon." Because he was Ben Hogan. Hogan was the game's third-winningest player with 63 tour victories. He won nine major championships, four U.S. Open titles, the career Grand Slam and was the only person to win three Grand Slam events in a single season. But the Hogan Mystique was truly born on Feb. 2, 1949, when Hogan's car collided head...