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<div>At 5:44 AM -0500 2/11/01, Bapopik@AOL.COM wrote:</div>
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FOUR-PEAT<br>
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Today's New York Post discusses a possible New York
Yankees "four-peat." As in, one more than a
"three-peat" and two more than a "repeat."
This hasn't been used often (not too many circumstances of a
three-time champion), and it sounds ridiculous each time.<br>
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<div>There are "about 969" hits on google for
"four-peat", several of which involve teams that tried for
the "four-peat" and didn't make it, one prominent recent
example being the Lady Vols (U. of Tennessee women's basketball team)
who were upset by Duke on March 23, 1999. Many of the
"four-peat" cites are on the high school level, and some
involve peripheral categories (coach of the year, player of the year)
rather than team championships. One outlier is a reference (or
several references, actually) to the Bulls winning the NBA
championship in 1996 after winning three years in a row from 1990-91
through 1992-93 (the last of which was widely proclaimed as a
three-peat, causing royalties to be paid to Pat Riley, who reputedly
copyrighted the term when his Lakers tried (and failed) to achieve
the three-peat when the Bulls unseated them in '91) and then not
winning for the two years during which Michael Jordan took his
baseball sabbatical. The Bulls in fact three-peated twice
around that two-year hiatus, but didn't REALLY four-peat, because of
that hiatus. The New York Islanders four-peated in the NHL, but
that was 7 years before Riley coined the "three-peat" term,
if indeed he did. Of course, that doesn't prevent
three-peat--or four-peat--from being used retroactively, as in the
following:</div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">No major pro sports team has
won four consecutive championships in this<br>
decade. Not the Chicago Bulls, not the Dallas Cowboys, not the New
York</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">Yankees, not Major League
Soccer's D.C. United. A<b> four-peat</b> hasn't been<br>
accomplished in hockey since 1983, in basketball since 1966, in
baseball<br>
since 1954, or in football ever. Tiger Woods is being celebrated
today as<br>
history's greatest golfer because he just became the first player in
47 years<br>
to win three major tournaments in a year. But no current male athlete
has<br>
won four straight titles in any of these sports. That honor is about
to be<br>
earned instead by a team of women: the Houston Comets.</font></div>
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