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With the “retirement” of Mark McGwire, the St. Louis Cardinals have reported interest in signing Jason Giambi, the Oakland Athletics’ superstar first baseman. The Cardinals have the luxury of adding players like Giambi because the organization has healthy fan support, a fan-friendly stadium and ownership willing to spend money...
...banned affirmative action in 1996, U.C. Berkeley is becoming less diverse, with the number of "underrepresented minorities" on the decline. The probusiness mayor got 60% of the vote in the last election. And an assemblywoman is planning to run against Barbara Lee--the member of Congress for Berkeley and Oakland who cast the lone vote against war--with a campaign titled "It's O.K. to Love America." For now, Berkeley's woes have inspired the town of Santa Cruz, another former hippie haven down the California coast, to quietly shelve its own antiwar resolution. Making foreign policy, it seems...
...affirmative action in 1996, U.C. Berkeley is becoming less diverse, with the number of "underrepresented minorities" on the decline. The probusiness mayor got 60 percent of the vote in the last election. And an assemblywoman is planning to run against Barbara Lee - the member of Congress for Berkeley and Oakland who cast the lone vote against war - with a campaign titled "It's O.K. to Love America." For now, Berkeley's woes have inspired the town of Santa Cruz, another former hippie haven down the California coast, to quietly shelve its own antiwar resolution. Making foreign policy, it seems...
...your starting pitcher has simply given you a chance to win, instead of an actual win? This is Roger Clemens you’ve sent to the hill—not some run-of-the-mill, Game Four-type starter, but actually, according to the pitching setup in the Oakland series, your staff ace. Somehow, I think, you have to be hoping for a little better than five-and-out from your...
Some will defend Clemens, pointing to the hamstring injury that suddenly flared up as soon as Oakland starting wailing on him in Game One of the ALDS. Who knows, maybe Roger actually was playing hurt. With Clemens, though, it’s always something—a pulled groin, a sore hamstring or a hangnail. By now, Roger is pretty much the boy who cried wolf. And whether he fakes his injuries or not, whether he asks out of games or not, the reality is, for one reason or another, he always disappears when the game is on the line...