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...softball and baseball tournaments were much more competitive than in the past. The U.S. women lost their first three games, then scratched back and beat all the teams that had beaten them. I went to the baseball stadium - sweetest little Triple-A park you've ever seen - to watch the U.S. play Cuba in the gold-medal game. Ben Sheets pitched a beauty and the States won a stunner, 4-0. The Cubans had never lost the Olympic gold. The last scene was precious: Fat old Tommy Lasorda - remember? from the Dodgers? - waddling out, tears in his eyes, to celebrate...
...race, I was getting a bite and I bumped into Rob de Castella, the great Aussie marathoner from a few years back. I reminded him that we ran the Boston Marathon together once. He said he'd forgotten that, and I said this was understandable since he'd beaten me by an hour and 46 minutes...
...victory over Navy speaks volumes about the team's improvement from a year ago. The Midshipmen are the only CWPA team that has beaten UMass this year. They did so twice, including once this weekend...
When the plane landed, airport police and medics were waiting at the jetway. Burton was unconscious but still officially alive. He died later at the hospital. The autopsy found bruises and scratches from blunt-force trauma to his face, neck and torso. "He was essentially beaten from the top of his head down to his ankles," says Kent Spence, his mother's attorney. "He died of positional and compressional asphyxia." The autopsy found traces of marijuana and cocaine in his system, but not enough to explain his outburst, Spence says. Though the coroner ruled the death a homicide because Burton...
When Misty Hyman produced the swim of her life to beat Australian Susie O'Neill in the 200-m butterfly last Wednesday, it lifted the Americans; the Australians looked beaten, in the stands and in the pool. In the end, Australia and the Netherlands tied with five gold medals apiece. In Atlanta, Australia won two gold (and 12 medals in all), while the Netherlands scored a miserable two bronze medals. In Sydney, the host country won 13 minor medals compared with only three for the Dutch. The top three countries won 60 percent of all the swimming medals and broke...