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...last twelve, always managing to win even in the tightest of circumstances. There were heart-stopping offensive heroics like Scott Podsednik's ninth-inning homer that decided Game One and Geoff Blum's 14th-inning game-winning shot in Game Three, in what was his first World Series at-bat. And in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game Four, shortstop Juan Uribe made a defensive marvel of a play by hurling himself into the left-field seats to grab a foul ball, thereby helping snuff out a Houston threat to a fragile Sox lead...
...bean bag throwing contests. All this, without a student center.If there was ever a time for students to reclaim their social potential, this is it. The money has just come in. The momentum is building. The new administrative players, like Kidd and McLoughlin, are willing to step up to bat for students. Campus center or not, students have the potential to win this game; they just have to learn how to play...
Jeff shakes my hand and asks about my experiences with Scientology in a lilting voice. He has large, lidded eyes that stare for uncomfortably long. Allen expresses a degree of incredulousness about the religion right off the bat; he asks about a story gleefully popular on anti-Scientology sites on internet, that Hubbard believed that an intergalactic ruler named Xenu banished human spirits to earth 75 million years ago. Jeff dismisses the story outright and addresses the question by introducing a central tenet of the religion: it’s not true unless it’s true...
Here’s the setup of the film: Nerdy Crimson Editor gets kicked out of school for a crime he didn’t commit, and goes to England. There, he joins a football street gang. Right off the bat, he just starts beating fools up. And from the look of the trailers, he seems to feel great about...
...game finally begins, and Schourek is playing centerfield and batting third. He was never much of a hitter in the majors, with a paltry .164 career batting average, but in his first at-bat he laces a ball the opposite way for a double...