Word: fielding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...game-ready Aggies--who had already played a seven-game European tour, plus No. 7 Hartford and No. 1 North Carolina, before arriving at Ohiri Field--had no trouble exploiting the Crimson's early season rust and inexperience...
Barely a day goes by that its sharp claws don't leave a nasty mark. Frightened by the news, Americans by the hundreds of thousands have put themselves on waiting lists for tire replacements. Auto-repair shops have had to field countless calls from panicked customers clamoring to have their tires checked, worried about every tiny shred, every tear on the tread. Nothing last week allayed those fears. On Thursday NHTSA raised to 88 the total deaths attributed to the defective tires and the number of injuries to 250. Meanwhile, Firestone's voluntary recall has so far replaced only close...
...between 100-m heats. Cut away to the Aquatic Centre, where Fu Mingxia, triple gold medalist, will dive for China. Flip to a few rounds of the legendary Cuban heavyweight fighter Felix Savon. Here's Marion Jones--she wants to be the first woman to win five track-and-field golds in one Olympics--warming up for the long jump, but before she leaps you can thrill to Ian Thorpe--"Thorpedo"--Australia's 17-year-old swimming sensation. Then there's the amazing Russian super-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler Alexander Karelin, going for his fourth straight gold medal...
...realistic it is in the sprints. The night before, this rippled 5-ft. 10-in. racing machine ran away with her opponents' gold-medal dreams before 70,000 track-crazed Belgians. Jones, not known for her starts, popped the second fastest reaction time in a nine-woman field and plowed through a headwind to a 10.83 clocking to win the 100 m. In Zurich a few weeks earlier, she had a terrible start, then chased down the pack, nipping fellow American Inger Miller at the wire. When Jones is slow out of the blocks, she wins. When she's fast...
...entirely different proposition. In Brussels, Jones finished fifth, fouling on four of six attempts. Not only has Jones not dominated this season, she hasn't been especially good at the event. Critics say she simply doesn't know how to jump, and in truth her style on the field is as artless as her form on the track is elegant. She pumps her arms, runs like hell, then jumps; if she fouls, she moves back a step before ignition. Nevertheless, she was the top-ranked women's long jumper in 1998, and with her package--the speed, the will...