Word: underdog
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...fact that against the other teams in the tournament—Duke, BU, Dartmouth, Penn—we haven’t done well. So we have something to prove and it won’t be an easy road.”Harvard is relishing its status as underdog.“You can see from the last two years that it’s not as predictable as you would think,” junior Kwaku Nyamekye said. “Anything can happen.”Massachusetts’ run in the tournament last year serves...
...stretch of the season,” co-captain Nikki Rhodes said. “It will be a different game then the last time we played them. It’s going to be very intense.”The Huskies rolled through their conference tournament as the underdog and are currently on a five-game winning streak. the Crimson is unbeaten in its last eight games, claiming a record of 7-0-1 since September 27. “When the game starts, there are going to be 22 players, and every single one of those players...
...background and middle name, Hussein, had provided fodder for his enemies in the U.S., here in Tehran, people refer to the Democrat endearingly as Hussein Agha or Mr. Hussein (in the Shi'ite Muslim tradition, Hussein is the name of the most beloved imam, the ultimate symbol of an underdog fighting against injustice...
...stages of grief, and right now I’m in the stage of denial,” said HRC member Jordan A. Monge ’12. Well before the race was called in Obama’s favor, Republican students acknowledged that their presidential candidate was the underdog. Still, they held out hope earlier in the evening that the night would produce at least some victories for their party. “The other thing that we’re looking at is even if McCain loses, we’ll consider it a victory...
...tomorrow. We are one day away from changing the United States of America," he declared at every stop. "Tomorrow, you can put an end to the politics that would divide a nation just to win an election." He recalled how he began his quest for the nomination as an underdog in February, 2007, on the steps of the state capitol in Springfield, Illinois. "We knew this was going to be a steep climb," he declared at his final rally in Manassas Park, Va, to a late-night crowd of 90,000. "This happened because of you. We are going...