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...Everybody who is my age, or everybody who is over 30, knows that joke. I mean, I'm not sure I get the point of the over-shift against David Ortiz. It helps you if he hits a ground ball, but if the bomb goes off, you can put those infielders anywhere you want to, it doesn't really do you any good. The damage that David does comes when he hits the ball 380 feet. It really does not matter much where you put your infielders when that happens...
...Great Divide" [Feb. 18]. Whether intentional or not, your portrayal of Clinton in stark black-and-white photos, juxtaposed with the much warmer color photos of Obama, had the effect of increasing the very divide your article addressed. Obama was shown smiling and playing with a soccer ball, while Clinton was shown doing a phone interview, studying papers in preparation for a rally and standing in the dark before giving a speech. Photographs can be just as biased as language. A little more evenhandedness would have been preferable. Marcia Hayden-Horan, Syracuse...
...were just trying to body up more when they got the ball in the post,” Harris said. “Coach talks about disengaging in the post and that’s kind of a bad habit that all our bigs have...
Down by five with 5:09 remaining, Nwachukwu ripped the ball away from Harris as he went up for the defensive rebound and then forced it out on Harris. Two seconds later, the ball was inbounded right back to Nwachukwu for the easy basket. After that the Lions never looked back...
...three-pointers early in the first half.On Saturday, however, neither team found its offensive groove all night, but it was the Big Red’s inconsistent perimeter game that eventually put the Crimson in the driver’s seat.Cornell’s dependence on the long ball showed as the game wound down. On the Big Red’s last possession, with Harvard up 49-46, the visitors needed a three to force overtime. The Crimson clamped down on defense to counter Cornell’s four-guard set, and the visiting team looked lost when...