The moment when Vasilis Torosidis settled Thursday's contest, scoring the team's crucial second goal in the 71st minute, has already assumed an almost sacred quality that looks likely to infect the nation for years to come.
The previous winners of the contest scored each of them on their scientific and artistic merits, and these 12 finalists made the cut.
This year, Democrats are hoping to contest scores of House seats and protect their Senate majority in some two dozen highly-contested races.
Glendale dominated play throughout the contest, scoring goals in both halves, to earn a 2-0 victory against Burbank at home, breaking a 20-game league losing streak against Burbank.
To select the four top dances in each category, the winners of the 2009 and 2010 Dance Your Ph.D. contests scored each of this year's 55 dances on three criteria: scientific merit, artistic merit, and the creative marriage of both.
Only 24 of the 47 males (51.1%) who won aggressive contests scored higher than their rival on PC2 (binomial p = 1.000), and the magnitude of the difference in PC2 between males had no effect on contest outcome (χ2 = 0.365, p = 0.546, Nagelkerke R2 = 0.010).
He was well within his rights to contest the score; however, Gerhard Fischer, President of Wisconsin Academic Decathlon, said that the way Burke handled the appeal was "highly questionable" and inflammatory.
Against the Pacers, Bosh struggled offensively through the first three games, scoring 9 points in each contest before scoring 25 points on 3-for-5 shooting from beyond the three point arc in a game 4 victory.
Nice, but not how the contest is scored.
In their 94th contest Ireland scored their 32nd win over the French, the fifth duel on the spin without losing.
After initially getting into the contest he scored well in some polls, perhaps thanks to his high name recognition from his dominant role in politics during the 1990s.
