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...This column grew out of two kinds of stories I?ve written for ?the real magazine? - for TIME not-com. (In addition, that is, to all the movie reviews, celebrity profiles and arrant forays into the world of sport, science and, last week, the criminal underworld). One is a tribute to long-dead actors or musicians, usually tagged to a reissue or revaluation of their work...
...very special," Ruggiero said. "Obviously it's a huge honor. It doesn't happen very often in a team sport that you get individually recognized. It's very special to me and to have the opportunity to thank people in my life that have made a difference...
...truth. His mixed bag of base-ballers range from the humble to the showy, the laid-back to the lay-it-out. They come from a list of locales so wide and varied that it might make Howard Dean antsy. Try blending this kind of mixture in a sport like baseball—distinct positions, varied roles and all—and forging a team out of spare parts turns out to be a more tricky proposition than you might think...
...Crew is such a miserable, grueling sport that to actually play a game for exercise is a completely novel concept,” joked Charles G. Kulwin ’06 of Currier House...
...owners are looking for wage cuts (according to the Levitt study, NHL players take 75% of league revenue, compared with 58% in the NBA), although they don't seem eager to cut the jobs of all those goons by eliminating fighting. Still, Davidson hopes the "black eye to the sport" will force the league to confront its precarious situation and "avoid the work stoppage before we lose more people than we can afford...