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John is the latest from David Milch (Deadwood, NYPD Blue), working with "surf noir" novelist Kem Nunn. It follows the troubled Yost surfing dynasty: Grandpa Mitch (Bruce Greenwood) is a retired ascetic; son Butchie (Brian Van Holt) is a champ turned junkie; grandson Sean (Greyson Fletcher) wants to surf competitively, over Mitch's objections. They meet John (Austin Nichols), a pompadoured stranger who may be an alien or God (his last name is Monad, a Gnostic reference). Actual, literal miracles begin happening...
...victory over the University of Rhode Island in nonconference action at Bill Beck Field in Kingston, R.I. After recording a one-pitch save for freshman Eric Eadington Sunday against Cornell, senior Jake Bruton pitched three innings of one-run relief of Zailskas (1-0).Nick Greenwood (0-3) took the loss for the Rams (8-18, 3-3 Atlantic 10), getting roughed up for eight earned runs on seven hits in three-and-a-third innings. His teammates banged out 12 hits to Harvard’s nine, but couldn’t turn rallies into runs. Junior Matt Vance...
...curators seem to have recognized the yawn-factor inherent in displaying 120 educational panels from a now-defunct museum—established by Francis Greenwood Peabody, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals from 1886-1913—that was once the cornerstone of the now-defunct Department of Social Ethics...
...DIED. Ferenc Puskás, 79, Hungarian soccer star whose girth and ungainly gait earned him the nickname the Galloping Major, a moniker that belied one of the deftest and deadliest strikers in the sport's history; in Budapest. Described by former England manager Ron Greenwood as a "roly-poly little fellow" who looked as if he "did most of his training in restaurants," Puskás was an unstoppable shotmaker, scoring 84 goals in 85 matches for his national team. In 1953 he starred in one of soccer's most famous contests: a surprise trouncing of England that debuted...
...Establishment--just as a good folk album should. And any right-winger who can't laugh at the skulking, faux reggae Condi, Condi (surely one of the best love songs ever written about a former National Security Adviser) deserves to be locked in a room with Lee Greenwood for eternity...