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Like fellow Texan switch-hitter Lance Berkman—a former Rice standout and current all-star leftfielder with the Houston Astros—the 6’4, 215-lb. Hendricks is only beginning to scratch his potential. Hendricks models his swing after the Astros star, driving the ball to all fields from both sides of the plate...
...beginning of Montijo’s 10-year plan of living with her mother, brother and sister while teaching. Home was also Monica’s destination when she took a year off from Harvard. She spent that time helping to coach her sister’s All-Star Bobby Sox team and sold vacuums for a few months before returning to Cambridge for the summer...
...while most would say that the pressure to live up to Jantzen’s legacy and perform at the highest level is going to fall more squarely on the very broad shoulders of freshman heavyweight Bode Ogunwole—considering his all-star performance this weekend in the Show Me State—they’d be overlooking someone much nearer and dearer to Jantzen’s heart...
...Moore's year is finished too--but his action was, regrettably, part of the sport. "This guy went over the line for a split second, and now he is vilified over North America as a guy who should get life in jail," says broadcaster John Davidson, a former All-Star goalie. But even though the attack was uncharacteristic, it came about because Vancouver had vowed revenge on Moore after he leveled Canucks captain Markus Naslund three weeks earlier, leaving him with a concussion. So Bertuzzi taunted, poked and yanked at Moore the entire game, but Moore kept turning the other...
Like so many enraptured Quebecois youngsters, the Bears’ netminder chose goaltending stalwart Patrick Roy to be his idol, devotedly following the all-star and local hero during his glory days...