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Losses make it hard to laugh, unless you're Lavin

By Curry Kirkpatrick
ESPN The Magazine

Monday, January 13, 2003

LOS ANGELES -- It's about 11:47 LDW Time, massive gloom and doom settling in on the Left Coast, and the ticking clock sounds like a chorus of bass drums. Take a meeting? Do a midnight? Nah, let's do the Lavin Death Watch. Which started very early this season -- the only question being precisely when? Was it as UCLA was falling to San Diego in that overtime home opener in November, or as the Bruins collapsed against Southern Idaho or Central Dakota or Middle Eastern Azuza or somebody at home i ...

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