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Coming off a sub-.500 season, the Friars were predicted to finish next-to-last in the league by Hockey East coaches. But Providence shocked the conference by qualifying for the league tournament...
...dares ram through a confirmation unless Tower, 63, can decisively dispel rumors of drinking and womanizing that have dogged him for years. Last week those charges arose at the next-to-last moment to haunt him yet again. The Armed Services Committee had scheduled a vote for Thursday that looked certain to be affirmative and to pave the way for confirmation by the full Senate. That morning, however, Committee Chairman Sam Nunn of Georgia and ranking Republican John Warner of Virginia agreed to put off the vote indefinitely. Their explanation: new allegations serious enough to demand a check...
SEVILLE, Spain--Anatoly Karpov, the challenger, scored a dramatic victory yesterday in the next-to-last game of the World Chess Championship, putting him in position to take the title from champion Garri Kasparov with a draw in the final contest...
After losing its first six contests of the 1985 campaign, Cornell rebounded to triumph three times in its final four outings. It is worth noting that five of the Big Red's seven losses last season came by one touchdown or less, and that last year's next-to-last place finishers will have 33 returning lettermen--including all 11 defensive starters--giving the squad the experience it lacked in 1985 to win the close ones...
Yukica believes his squad "has put itself in a position where it can beat any team on any given day," a position the Big Green certainly wasn't in when it was shut out by Brown, 22-0, the next-to-last weekend...