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...strong showing in this worldwide ranking, some other Ivy League schools did not fare as well. The University of Pennsylvania, which was ranked fourth in U.S. News & World Report’s American rankings this past year, was ranked 28th by The Times Higher Education Supplement. Dartmouth, given the ninth spot by U.S. News, was 138th in the international Times rankings...
...averaging 16 minutes in the penalty box per game—almost a full period played beneath full strength—but that doesn’t even touch ECACHL penalty leader Clarkson, which averages 29.5 minutes per game in the slammer. In fact, Harvard sits in a ninth-place tie in the 12-team league...
...want to bury a ghost, you have to dig a very deep hole. And the Sox had dug themselves a doozy: down three games to none against the pin-striped demons of New York, Boston trailed, 4-3, as the team headed into the bottom of the ninth inning of what could have been the final game of the American League Championship Series (ALCS), three outs from another despairing winter...
...best opportunity to eschew five decades of postseason ignominy came in the 1997 World Series, when the Tribe was two outs from having its finger sizes measured. But Jose Mesa couldn’t hold the one-run lead in the bottom of the ninth, and in the bottom of the 11th, Tony Fernandez muffed a routine inning-ending double play, giving the Marlins runners on first and third with one out. We all know what happened next. If not, I’m sure you can guess...
...Cleveland miraculously managed to secure the first pick in the draft, and with LeBron James and Carlos Boozer leading the promising team, the playoffs seemed a lock. There was a bit of disappointment when they lost 11 out of 12 down the stretch and fell from sixth spot to ninth. Then the curse, or “reality,” struck, and Boozer bolted to the Utah Jazz after giving the Cavs’ management his word he would agree to a new contract if his option was not picked up, adding a new chapter to the all-time...