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...white guys like closer Billy Wagner and third baseman David Wright has yielded a team chemistry that includes healthy doses of loving abuse. "It's a beautifully vicious clubhouse," says former Met pitcher Ron Darling, now a team broadcaster. The players energetically hurl insults--especially at Wright, 23, the All-Star whose looks have inspired female fans to wear "Mrs. Wright" jerseys. "He thinks he's God's gift to women," says pitcher Tom Glavine. "We have to remind him it's totally about the uniform...
...through the Women’s National Festival in August, and from those hopefuls will select a roster of 20 to vie in a three-game series against the Canadian U-22 team in Ottawa between August 23 and 27. The U-22 squad will likely be a collegiate all-star team, comprising the nation’s top young talents with whom Stone has acquainted herself while manning the bench at Bright Arena. And two players who skate in Crimson colors for Stone—rising senior Jennifer E. Sifers and rising junior Caitlin Cahow—are expected...
...says Donnie Nelson, president of basketball operations for the Mavericks. "We were afraid that he was struggling so much, he was actually considering going back to Germany." After a summer sweating with Geschwindner back home, Nowitzki nearly doubled his rebounding output the next year, and grew into a perennial All-Star...
...chance to share the living room. The Yankees were jockeying with the Red Sox for first place at the time, and we were admittedly a bit nervous. But as the days passed, and as we sat together watching, the Bombers caught fire, winning nine of twelve to enter the all-star break. Everything was going to be fine, we told ourselves. And maybe it still will be. But there’s an awfully big space left on that couch, and it sure doesn’t feel like it’s going to be.—Staff...
...loss. The defeat ended a campaign that began a mystery, became a disappointment, and wound up—given its gritty post-season performance—a vindication.Harvard started the 2005-06 season having lost its top five scorers from a year ago: record-setting forward Nicole Corriero and all-star defenseman Ashley Banfield to graduation, and Julie Chu, Caitlin Cahow, and Sarah Vaillancourt to represent their countries in the Winter Games. “We lost a lot to graduation and it takes time to replace a Corriero, an Ashley Banfield,” Stone said in a preseason...