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...bat before, I was struck out on a curveball in the same situation, so I was thinking about it," Bridich said. "I was looking curveball and he hung one up and it was just nicely timed...
...Terrapins (20-17) got to Harvard starter Thoke early, scoring five runs in the first two innings. The Maryland onslaught was highlighted by a two-run double off the bat of senior designated hitter Cortney Madea in the top of the second...
...Stuyvesant Outreach, an alternative high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., isn't about the Civil War or Shakespeare's sonnets. He wants to know how many of them have ever been stopped by the police. Six hands shoot up. "Usually," says a student, "they just come out right off the bat and ask you, 'Do you have any drugs?'" The comment is a typical one for the 10-session course called Conflicts with Cops, run by the Harlem-based Neighborhood Defender Service. Its goal: to train African-American teens to make it through a police encounter safely...
...Just a decade ago, it was almost obligatory for a writer to pad down in March to some funky Florida field and wax poetic about the summer game. Today you're lucky if you can find a single line of baseball coverage. Spring once meant the crack of the bat, the smell of the grass. Today it means college hoops, March Madness...
...Thursday. Buchanan stood squarely behind his remarks in praise of Hitler, his crack that Holocaust survivors have "group fantasies of martyrdom" and his support of Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. As Neal Sher, the former director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations said, "Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi war criminal in America...