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...clobber alone demands a double take. In blue sports coat and strides, white slip-ons sans socks, and with a splash of bling around his tanned neck, he looks less like Australia's third longest-serving Prime Minister than a 1970s bookie. Then again, with his lean frame and flowing mane, Bob Hawke also looks terrific for a bloke who'll turn 78 a fortnight after the Nov. 24 election. Rich nowadays and in want of nothing material, what he'd like most for his birthday is a change of government. On this warm weekday afternoon, at a mall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Feel for His Audience | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...modern era is setting records in the other direction. The longest regulation game in history was played in 2006 between the Red Sox and New York Yankees. It lasted four hours and 45 minutes. And the same two teams fell just two minutes short of that record in another game this season. The mark they broke (4:27) was set in 2001. With over 100 years of baseball history, that’s an awful lot of distinction for just this decade...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: How Our Pastime Passes Time | 10/29/2007 | See Source »

...game’s longest play from scrimmage, and it came to fruition thanks to Pizzotti buying his target some time...

Author: By Matthew L. Sundquist, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Senior Sets Record in Rout | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

...clock, and you can balance your offense.”YAC ATTACKThough it’s not an official statistic, a large number of Pizzotti’s record-setting yards total came thanks to nifty runs by his receivers. In fact, the game’s two longest plays both featured large chunks of yards after the catch.On a 59-yard pass to tight end Jason Miller in the second quarter, a coverage breakdown by Princeton resulted in an easy completion of about 20 yards before the junior rumbled for nearly 40 more, finally getting dragged down...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Defense Bottles Up Three Tigers Quarterbacks | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

Akpan has now scored in 10 consecutive games, good for the ninth-longest streak in NCAA Division I history. The national record, set by Akron’s Pete Milich in 1962, is 16 consecutive games with a goal...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Late Rally Propels Crimson to Win | 10/21/2007 | See Source »

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