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...Harvard softball team will play Hofstra in the opening round of the NCAA Division I Softball Championship, meeting the Hempstead Regional hosts Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m., the NCAA announced yesterday. Also heading to Hempstead, N.Y. are Baylor, the tournament’s eighth overall seed, and Albany, the America East conference champion. Those four teams comprise one of the 64-team tournament’s 16 regionals. All teams play in a double-elimination format, with the winners and losers of the Harvard-Hofstra and Baylor-Albany games playing each other Saturday. The winners of each regional advance...
...there was Mauer, in Game 5 of Golden State's stunning first round series upset over the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks, injecting himself into the action by ejecting Golden State forward Stephen Jackson with nine seconds left for that vile, repugnant offense - sarcastic clapping. Jackson, admittedly, is no choir boy: he received a 30-game suspension for his role in the notorious Pistons-Pacers brawl of '04. But the ejection was just silly, and it's only the latest instance of hot-headed NBA officials stealing the limelight by flaunting their power on the court...
...half expected to be attacked by a barbarian horde bearing pikes and torches on Monday, when we increased the number of bonus armies a team receives for successfully controlling an entire region of the map. The reaction was fast and quite furious. “REPLAY LAST ROUND!” one player exclaimed. “What a douchy rule,” another hissed. “I’m continually amazed at what some of the smartest students in the world can screw...
...Ashraf Ghani, top right, who would be the first-ever non-U.S. bank chief; Bank of Israel governor Stanley Fischer (a U.S. citizen), middle; and former U.S. Trade Rep Robert Zoellick. One candidate from 2005, when Wolfowitz got the job, who hasn't gotten much traction this go-round: ex--HP CEO Carly Fiorina...
...Senate's number two Republican, Trent Lott, kicked off this week's round, commenting on Monday that, "I do think this fall we have to see some significant changes on the ground, in Baghdad and other areas." Lott did not say what might happen if those changes don't materialize. But he repeated his line Tuesday on MSNBC's Hardball...