They built a championship-caliber team by taking out advances on their future, and anyone who saw Benny Agbayani's game-winning homer or Al Leiter's gritty Game 5 outing against the Yankees cannot have regrets.
Wenger was particularly pleased with the gritty 1-0 win over Newcastle, and the way his team defended.
Clemson loves a fast pace, and Michigan loves its gritty 1-3-1 zone defense, making for a fascinating contrast in styles.
In New Zealand, Melbourne City shook off a second-half red card and battled to a gritty 1-0 win over the Phoenix in their A-League season opener at Westpac Stadium.
Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka trailed No. 16 seed Dominika Cibulkova, 1-6, 0-4, before rallying for a gritty 1-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4 victory, improving her 2012 record to 26-0.
Bernard is a gritty 10-year veteran.
Even so, like the gritty 1970s television show that spawned the movie, Regan is a dinosaur.
The path back for Moore, a gritty 33-year-old center, is wholly different.
Elgar is a gritty 28-year-old left-hander, who has played 21 Tests averaging 34.
The grim and gritty 90s thing is actually a teenage idea of what adult content is.
And even as the city revived, no developer clamored to renovate a ramshackle landmark on gritty 125th Street.
