Word: comebacking
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...Evander Holyfield vs. Riddick Bowe Former champ Holyfield was supposed to be too small, too old, too darned nice to regain his heavyweight title against Bowe. In their furious November bout, the only advantage Evander had was a huge heart. A comeback of class...
...have reached the point that they are taking comfort from the example of Clinton, who came back strong after his party's shellacking in the 1994 elections and wound up popular despite his own, very different set of scandals. Next thing you know, Bush will be calling himself the Comeback...
...unable to keep her shot on net.The mood was noticeably different on the Crimson sideline than it had been in the past. Prior to the Princeton game, Harvard had never been able to tie up a game that it had trailed in, but last weekend’s comeback seemed to give Crimson players new confidence that they could overcome Saturday’s deficit.“We know we can come back,” Odorczyk said. “We had a lot of opportunities. We should have had a goal—we should have...
...moments into the first period, via 2-on-1, but he and the Crimson defense successfully warded off the effort and neutralized the Redmen offense throughout the next period and a half. Tobe, however, was less fortunate, though he was not the exclusive bearer of blame for the McGill comeback. Sloppiness on his part did account for the Redmen’s second tally—Tobe gloved Lucas Madill’s blueline shot but failed to control it, allowing Maddill to bang home the rebound—but Harvard’s less-than-stellar defensive play outside...
...victory, “Coming off a game like this, we feel better—it gives us more confidence we can put the ball in the net.” This confidence carried on to Saturday’s game against Princeton, when Harvard notched its first comeback of the season, although not with the desired end result. Behind Wylie’s multiple jukes of Tiger defenders and then her pass to sophomore midfielder Megan Merritt, the Crimson notched its first equalizer of the season. Although Harvard met a heart-breaking defeat with a 2-1 overtime loss...