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The final horn sounded, mercifully, the players shook hands, and the Aztecs shuffled off the floor, through a tunnel and into the quiet of their locker room, their season ending with a whimper instead of a bang.
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
This year’s field is mercifully free of a Skin or a Two Distant Strangers, and the two nominees most plugged in to the current political moment have none of the cloying obviousness that usually marks an Oscar short.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
In front of loud crowds in small gyms, the madness is already spreading – and the soul of college basketball is wonderfully, mercifully, alive.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
State mercifully ended the Canes season at 7-24, one of the worst in the 63-year history of the men’s program.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
This year’s field is mercifully free of a Skin or a Two Distant Strangers, and the two nominees most plugged in to the current political moment have none of the cloying obviousness that usually marks an Oscar short.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
In front of loud crowds in small gyms, the madness is already spreading – and the soul of college basketball is wonderfully, mercifully, alive.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 12 Mar. 2025
State mercifully ended the Canes season at 7-24, one of the worst in the 63-year history of the men’s program.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 9 Mar. 2025
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