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...finished 24-58 and at one point doormatted 18 straight games. During the off-season, Celtics GM Danny Ainge pulled off a pair of heists, bringing Kevin Garnett, the 6-ft. 11-in. (2.1 m) EX-MVP who is one of the most versatile players ever, and sweet-shooting guard Ray Allen to Boston. There they joined Paul Pierce, an automatic scorer and a six-time All-Star himself. Nice. But none of these guys have ever sniffed a championship. And they have only one ball to share...
Cassidy grew up playing army games with cousins and re-creating Civil War battles on a Ping-Pong table covered with fake grass and tiny trees in the basement of his Carmel, Ind., home. He joined the Army Reserve in 1992, and the Indiana National Guard in 2003, intending to serve 20 years, get a pension and then retire to teach junior-high history. He served in Bosnia in 2004. And in April 2006, when the Army called, Cassidy left his landscaping job for Iraq. "Some guys had gone to Iraq three times at that point, and he hadn...
Brown opened up its largest lead of the game, 61-35, with 9:39 to play on a three-pointer by Adrian Williams, the Bears spark-plug guard who finished with 13 points and two steals...
...Bears made just eight shots from the field after halftime—to pull away from the league’s weakest team. With just one senior and two juniors on its roster, Brown proved unable to hang with a veteran Harvard team for 40 minutes. Guard Niki Finelli (14 points) got the scoring started with a three-pointer just a minute into the second frame, and consecutive layups from forwards Adrian Budischak and Katie Rollins and Finelli extended the Crimson’s lead to 10 with 14:57 to play.Junior guard Emily Tay continued her fine play...
...hijacked by criminal gangs running lucrative kidnap-for-ransom schemes. The indiscriminate thuggery had damaged Sadr's reputation among average Iraqis. So had the perception that Sadr was an Iranian stooge. Some of elements of the Madhi Army had morphed into groups that answered directly to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and were operating beyond Sadr?s control. He has stood by as those elements have been arrested by U.S. forces...