The Crimson Tide has appeared in 10 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournaments, including an eight-year streak of consecutive appearances in the tournament stretching from 1992 to 1999.

But the public fixed its fancy, two races earlier, on the 10-year-old gelding Fourstardave, who ran and lost for the second time in five days' time, putting into jeopardy his eight-year streak of winning at least one race at Saratoga.

The Gators received invitations to the NCAA Tournament every year from 1999 through 2007, an eight-year streak that is a school record.

Cheered on by a parochial home crowd, the Sea Eagles defeated the Storm 25-18, on their way to reaching their first finals series since 1998, and their first in an ongoing eight-year streak.

The win broke the Bruins' eight-year streak of victories, the longest in the rivalry's history.

Entering the 1967 season, the Red Sox were in the middle of an eight-year streak of losing seasons.

UK's eight-year streak of championships was broken in 2003 when they finished runner up to the University of Central Florida.

Before that stretch, the Globes had been on an eight-year streak in which one of its two best-picture recipients also won the main prize at the Academy Awards.

He broke Frank Kimmel's eight-year streak of winning the championship in that series.

And first-timers are welcome; Mr. Peterson so easily juggles beginners and cast-masters that he says he has been able to maintain an unbroken eight-year streak of clients' landing fish.