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Done in by a disastrous second period, the Crimson skaters fell short of besting No. 3 Minnesota-Duluth, surrendering four unanswered goals in a 6-3 series-opening loss. Despite hanging with the Bulldogs (10-1-2, 9-1-2 WCHA) in the opening period and mounting a comeback in the early stages of the third, the Crimson (6-4-1, 6-1-0 ECAC) was simply unable to overcome the 5-1 deficit accumulated during a shoddy second frame...
Drew Bagnall capped the unanswered comeback at 8:48 when he knocked in a neat cross-ice feed, and Trevelyan knocked home an empty-netter with 0.1 seconds remaining on the clock...
...When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan's Last Comeback (Simon & Schuster; 435 pages), Michael Leahy, who spent two years covering His Airness's disappointing tenure as player--general manager with the Washington Wizards, argues that Jordan's on-court performance in D.C. won't taint his legacy. (At 40, he averaged 20 points a game.) But in the locker room and executive suite, explains Leahy, the game's greatest player tossed an airball. Jordan ran the Wizards from distant Chicago and hired cronies. And once, after Jerry Stackhouse hit a buzzer shot to give the Wizards a win, Jordan credited...
Eight of those twenty points were scored by Hamilton, including a comeback-deflating three pointer with 5:21 left that gave the Crusaders their first double-digit lead of the game. By the time senior guard Kevin Rogus hit a jumper to make the score 56-44 with 52 seconds to play, the game was effectively over...
...tutor told the red-jacketed usher that we had been particularly belligerent, cursed at him, and probably didn’t attend Harvard anyway. All this as Yale mounted a second-quarter comeback push. I consider it nothing short of a miracle that I was able to enjoy Ricky Williamson’s 100-yard interception return...