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Actually, they're several steps closer--the win puts the Crimson in a tie with Colgate for the eighth and final playoff spot with seven ECAC games remaining. Only two of those games are at home, however, so the icemen are still a long jump away...
...crew had plummeted in the year's first half. The Beanpot offered a chance to turn things around; B.C. did by upsetting Northeastern, 7-2, then pushing B.U. to the brink in one of the tourney's most exciting finals ever. While they just missed out on a playoff berth, the revitalized Eagles finished the schedule strongly, grabbing seven out of nine Division One contests, including a 5-3 grudge match win over...
...that the Boston University icemen, who dominated the 1970s with seven Beanpot titles, three national championships and five ECAC crowns, are no longer deities. The once-mighty Terriers now sit in the middle of the ECAC scramble with a 6-6 league record, by no means out of a playoff berth, but by no means in, either...
With just five games left, the Rams had won five and lost six and appeared on their way to missing the playoffs for the first time in seven years. But some of the walking wounded returned or, as was the case with Linebacker Jack Youngblood, who appeared in two playoff games with a broken left fibula, simply kept on walking. (Youngblood: "I've gotten over the worst of it, which is the idea of playing with a broken leg.") The Rams beat their hated rivals, the Dallas Cowboys, 21-19, in one playoff game, then outdueled -some would...
Most important, these Rams are not the same team that stumbled to a 9-7 regular season record, the worst of any playoff team. They have won six of their last seven games, including impressive playoff wins over Dallas and Tampa Bay (okay, they didn't score a touchdown, but they gained 369 yards against football's stingiest defense) that earned them a spot in Sunday's game...