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...striking .488 hitting percentage. In the second game of that match, she batted a perfect 10 kills on 10 attempts to lead the Crimson to a 30-28 game-victory over the Big Red. On the whole, Trimble finished with a .450 hit-percentage, 4 blocks, and an ace in addition to her 32 kills in her last two games wearing the Crimson uniform. Yesterday’s league announcement makes Trimble the first Harvard volleyball player to receive Player of the Week honors this season...
...week to cheer on Argentina's biggest club, Boca Juniors. Now, the franchise is moving to satisfy this desire to express post-mortem loyalty by opening a cemetery where it promises its most devoted fans burial in the same precinct as its legendary players. Says the club's 1960s ace midfielder Antonio Rattin of the special section of the tranquil, grassy Parque Iraola cemetery outside Buenos Aires opened exclusively for Boca fans, "It's so nice it makes you feel like staying...
...Boca legends of the past have already been reburied in the new cemetery, goalkeeper Juan Estrada, who played for the club during the 1930s, and Julio Elias Musimessi, a 1950s ace...
...Political figures such as the Perons have been superseded as icons of Argentine identity by more recent figures such as former Boca ace Diego Maradona, widely considered during the 1980s to have been the greatest player in the world. In 1986, he led Argentina to World Cup triumph in a campaign whose victims included England, in a symbolic avenging of the humiliating military defeat the country had suffered at British hands in the Falklands four years earlier. Not unlike the Perons, of course, Maradona the icon had his flaws - he was banned from Italian football (where he had played...
...Crimson, John was selected by the White Sox in the 47th round of the 2005 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft following a junior season in which he went 1-for-9. Meanwhile, Zachary U. Farkes, the all-time Harvard home run leader, and Frank J. Herrmann, the ace of the pitching staff, both members of the Class of 2006, went undrafted that spring and were forced to sign free-agent contracts...