Word: benching
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Harvard Coach Ed Krass didn't hesitate to point out why Harvard (2-0 Ivy, 6-5 overall) dropped its first match to B.C. in a decade. All he had to do was notice the two missing spaces on the bench usually reserved for top-seeded Cristina Dragomirescu and fifth-singles Co-Captain Nicole Rival...
This year, Boston has no bench. Dennis Johnson is no longer DJ. Larry Bird can no longer fly. Robert Parish is one year older, and Kevin McHale...well, all right, McHale is still unstoppable...
...second period, it was time to give the starters a rest and use the depth of the Crimson bench, which normally holds about 10 extra swimmers. Ohio State, on the other hand, had its starting seven in the water for the whole game, with few players on the bench...
...time I was in junior high, I had calmed down a bit. I no longer came home from baseball games hoarse from the incessant bench chatter that would inevitably get me beaten up in the schoolyard the next day. I no longer spat on my palm for the postgame handshakes...
...baseball was still fun. I remember falling off the mound in hysterics after our opponents' bench had collapsed in the middle of my windup. I remember my co-presidency of the two-man Kiko Garcia Fan Club in honor of the Baltimore utility infielder. I remember Ralph James slamming a towering shot far over the head of our leftfielder, a kid named Ron Mitchell. I cracked up as our coach pulled Ron off the field for jogging after the ball. "But Mr. Marshall, he could have run around the bases twice," Ron pleaded...