below the line

Universities have always had, and even embraced, the duty to draw the line between fact and fiction — to determine when an assertion or opinion falls below the line of intellectual acceptability.

There was one tense moment when Spieth said, “Everyone I’m hearing that had eyes on it … is saying they were 100 percent certain it landed below the line.”

Angel City was below the line and upset Portland 5-1 on Sunday to clinch the first berth in the franchise’s two-year history.

The Pride are below the line with 28 points while Racing is eighth with 27 points.

Williams, who delivered bagels to picketers during the strike, told the Associated Press at the time that hundreds of people below the line are unfortunate victims of the strike: “You want to resolve it for their sake and get everybody back working and find a way to share it.”