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...fans, the choice is an easy one - play the man. Even though he's not playing well, Ripken is the leading vote-getter at third base for this year's All-Star Game in Seattle on July 10. And, on the day he announced his pending retirement, all 19,600 remaining tickets for the Orioles' Sept. 30 season-ending game at Yankee Stadium were sold...
...trader. Last week her brand-new CD, Come Dream with Me (N-Coded Music), hit the No. 1 spot on the Billboard jazz chart immediately upon its release. She has a jazz drummer fiance, her parents love and support her, and her career is backed by an all-star squad of management, publicity and production pros, as well as sidemen straight from the first team: pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Christian McBride, saxophonist Michael Brecker. Most of all, her voice is a silken, controlled wonder that is both a genetic gift and the product of superb training. When she wraps...
...credit is being given to better enforcement of the strike zone, but after years of looking like deer caught in Ted Nugent's backyard, pitchers are displaying a potent new weapon. "I call it the pitch of the new millennium," says ESPN baseball analyst Harold Reynolds, a former All-Star second baseman. The increasingly popular pitch is just a modified fast ball, but by putting pressure on the inside half of the ball, right-handed pitchers can aim at a left-handed hitter's body and still make it break over the plate, opposite from the movement of a curve...
...Though Cheung has directed an hour-long music drama and an all-star anti-smoking film, he will keep acting; he soon joins Anita Mui and Karen Mok in a Stanley Kwan film, and hopes to work with Zhang Yimou and the Crouching Tiger princess, Zhang Ziyi. Still, forever-young Leslie is having midlife doubts about his standing in post-'97 Hong Kong. "I've worked bloody hard for 20 years," he says passionately. "I was penniless, dying hard for my groceries. I can now live in a reasonably sized detached house. I'm still very strong in Japan...
...Definitely fly-fishing in Montana,” said Michael C. Large ’01, member of all-star band Fink Fank Funk...