scrappy

As a string of scrappy displays pushed them though the weaker side of the draw, past Samoa, Japan and Fiji, staff stressed that victory was everything.

The end of this season felt like a dagger between the shoulder blades, and for that credit goes to the scrappy Sounders.

Thomas’ fellow Wyoming instructor Erin Lindt gives so much of her soul to her scrappy class of economically disadvantaged kids that it takes a toll on her marriage.

He ends with a wry joke, revealing a flash of the scrappy, mischievous teen with big dreams of starting a punk band with his best friends.

That proved to be the only score of a hard-fought and sometimes scrappy second half as Canada ran out the victors.