For sheer surprise, Gardner's victory over such an overwhelming favorite may rival the United States hockey team's upset of the Soviet team at the 1980 Winter Games.
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This will mean that Olbermann will be going up against his favorite old rival--Bill O'Reilly--and a new one: Lawrence O'Donnell, who took Olbermann's old slot on MSNBC.
The league favorite is always rival St. Margaret's.
Sources: In the 2011 edition of the Third Saturday in October, Alabama entered the game as a 30-point favorite over the rival Tennessee Volunteers.
For best classical contemporary composition, the Jobs opera turns up again as a favorite, its flashiest rival being Jake Heggie's often-satirical opera about opera and football, "Great Scott". Du Yun's "Air Glow," Missy Mazzoli's "Vespers for Violin" and the Kernis piece also are on the list.
In this tiny state of 750,000 people, which takes pride in its moderate traditions and civil campaigns, voters seem truly torn over having to choose between two of their favorite politicians, now rivals in one of the nation's most hotly contested Senate races.
The media loves it, running with endless references to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's very fine book on the Lincoln Cabinet, an Obama favorite, "Team of Rivals".
Fielder, 29, also grew up a Jets fan, then left for Dartmouth, and eventually wound up playing for his old favorite team's division rival.
Down the road Ms. Garanca can envision heavier parts like Saint-Saëns's Dalila or her favorite, Amneris, Aida's rival in Verdi's opera.
