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...student protests; in Paris. DIED. ROSE GACIOCH, 89, star pitcher and outfielder in the heyday of women's professional baseball; in Detroit. As a mainstay for the Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1945 to its demise in 1954, she was a three-time all-star and the model for Rosie O'Donnell's character in the 1992 film A League of Their...
...third time this year Copple had sustained the injury, first this spring and then again during the Shrine Bowl—an All-Star game for graduating Nebraska seniors, on July 24. Nor is he a stranger to the surgery—he has had the same procedure performed on his right shoulder. He had hoped treatment could be postponed until after his first semester at Harvard...
...these, Oceans, with Steven Soderbergh directing the original's all-star cast now augmented by Catherine Zeta-Jones, has the best pedigree. "We were always mindful that we had to be good. None of us just wanted to jump into a cynically made sequel," says Damon. The director never intended to reunite the cast, but while on a press tour in Italy "I could just see in his eyes that he had a great idea," adds the actor, whose own sequel, The Bourne Supremacy, was a summer hit. The movie's retro-glamorous European locations ensured that the shoot...
...publicly considered withdrawing from the national team, sending China's sports propagandists into a tizzy. The Chinese state-run media reported one basketball official accusing Yao of "splitting" the team and blamed the U.S. and the NBA for corrupting the Chinese giant. Two days later, the two-time NBA all-star's decisive actions proved louder than his dissenting words when he led China to victory against New Zealand with 39 points and 13 rebounds. But the Chinese lost to Argentina 82-57 on Thursday, an undistinguished performance leavened only by the fact that the much-vaunted American team, padded...
...using wood in the historically pitcher-dominant league this summer, batting only .211 with five doubles and one home run. Farkes leads the last-place Gatemen in runs scored, however, and has been hot of late, raising his average 15 points over the past few games heading into the all-star break this weekend...