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Triumph and disappointment at NCAAs

You win some, you lose some.

We're at T-84 and counting to real live Kansas State football. BracketCat gets us ready with the countdown and #84 JC transfer wideout Cody Savage.

In the poem If, Rudyard Kipling asks the reader to "meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same." But for most athletes, this is a pretty tall order. Being on the cusp of victory only to fall to defeat is a terrible disappointment (The Nation News, (Barbados)), and one Akela Jones just experienced the hard way, finishing in third place (Manhattan Mercury) in the heptathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.