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...former batting champion who is called Godzilla "because I look so scary," he says. The 1.9 m, 95.3 kg Hideki bears the fortunate burden of playing for Japan's oldest, most successful team, an institution combining the prestige of the Yankees and the fan reverence accorded Notre Dame. The Giants always lead the league in attendance and give their stars a profile Ichiro could only have dreamed of when he played in Japan. Giants owner Tsuneo Watanabe has never lost a player to America and speaks often these days about "sports patriotism." But Hideki turned down a long-term contract...
...This is neato!" I said to Mr. Harvey. He could have been the hunchback of Notre Dame, whom we had read about in French class. I didn't care. I completely reverted. I was my brother Buckley on our day-trip to the Museum of Natural History in New York, where he'd fallen in love with the huge skeletons on display. I hadn't used the word neato in public since elementary school...
...consolation to Baldwin, she is not alone in her dissembling. Last week Washington fire chief Ronnie Few agreed to resign when his college degree and a fire-chief-of-the-year award turned out to be fabrications. In the past six months, coaches at Notre Dame, Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt were all caught with fiction on their resumes. And these followed a parade of high-profile folks accused of falsifications, including Pat Robertson (claimed he saw combat in Korea), Senator Joseph Biden (inflated his law-school class rank) and historian Joseph Ellis (made up stories about parachuting into Vietnam...
...Harvard had lost to Notre Dame in the first round of the tournament. But this year Chu, Lingman and company blew through Marist, 4-0, to advance to the second round. But the next day, the team’s season ended against No. 4 Baylor, despite an amazing fight to the finish...
...Crimson followed up that victory by gutting out a dramatic 7-6 overtime win over Notre Dame later that week. Jeff Gottschall scored the tying goal with 15 seconds to play in regulation, and Primm—an Honorable Mention All-Ivy selection—netted the game-winner at 3:03 of overtime...