Leopards spot Yale lead and can't recover in time
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Yale built a 16-point lead after three quarters and withstood a furious rally by Lafayette in a wild 37-34 win yesterday in Easton, Pa.
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This hardly seemed possible when Pitt needed frantic rallies to overcome Division I-AA Furman or Big East cellar dweller Temple. Or when the Panthers could barely move the ball against Ohio &#151; not Ohio State, but Ohio U.
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They only led once. Luckily for the Boston College Eagles, it came at the end of a game they otherwise had a lot of reasons to lose.
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Stanford came into the weekend with its second-leading scorer sidelined and its NCAA tournament hopes in doubt. Another sweep against the Oregon schools has improved the outlook for the Cardinal quite a bit.
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Can a leopard change its spots? Apparently so, if Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s most recent performance regarding his country&#39;s occupation of the Gaza Strip is anything to go by.
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The defending champs are slipping and the Colonials are rising. Maryland, which led the AP women's basketball poll for the first 10 weeks this season, fell two more places to sixth Monday after losing to an unranked opponent for the first time in two years.
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In nearly every frenzied race toward a national championship, there are unscripted moments that yank a title-contending team from the cusp of irrelevance. For Boston College, that moment was Thursday night.
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When Brown opens its Ivy League season Saturday against visiting Harvard, there will be more on the minds of the players and coaching staff than avenging last year's 52-14 loss to the Crimson or trying to end Harvard's four-game winning streak against the Bears.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Temple, clawing toward the .500 mark in the Atlantic 10 Conference, had dispatched three straight bottom-feeding opponents by an average of 28 points entering yesterday's game against the University of Massachusetts. Rather than being intimidated by the league leaders, however, the Owls had the vision to be standings-blind.
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Holy Cross won last week's game against Harvard with 19 seconds to play. Yesterday's game against Patriot League foe Georgetown was over long before that.
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The action was fast, furious, and continuous, and when Boston College's second-period blitz was over, a 1-0 Northeastern deficit had turned into a 3-0 Eagles lead that the Huskies, despite a two-goal third period, could not overcome.
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ST. LOUIS - Less than four minutes into yesterday's game, with the first television stoppage looming, Massachusetts coach Travis Ford called a timeout.
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Sylvia Fowles had 18 points and 11 rebounds to lead No. 1 LSU to a 78-38 rout of Texas State on Thursday night. The Tigers (12-0) opened with a 25-2 run in the first 9:30 and held Texas State (3-8) to just 26-percent shooting.
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Mike McLeod scored three second-half touchdowns to keep Yale undefeated with a 28-7 victory over Columbia on Saturday.
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Jessica Davenport had 18 points and nine rebounds to lead No. 11 Ohio State to an 80-43 win over Yale on Saturday.
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Yale University normally concerns itself with issues such as global warming and genetic research. But lately it is in a protracted battle over a restaurant that just wants to continue serving chorizo encrusted cod and lobster cassoulette.
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The playoffs don't begin until next week, but Wareham went into yesterday's Thanksgiving showdown against conference rival Bourne as if it were a tournament final.