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...love forthe game of basketball continues to drive my decision," Jordan explained in astatement last week. He asserted he feels "very strong," despite knee problems that sidelined him for 22 games last year. Coach Doug Collins said he plans to use Jordan as a sixth man coming off the bench. Jordan isn't so sure; he hinted he'd like to start. Guess who is going to have the final word--and shot...
...Tillery says after meeting a fellow first-year who does, in fact, look like a fucking millionaire. Eventually, Tillery’s spirits drop, and the boy who was once a social butterfly begins a reverse metamorphosis that eventually leads him and his posse to a bench at the edge of the Quad. In this recluse, he makes some calls. “What time is it?” he asks, sighing into his cell phone. “It’s 12? Then our night is pretty much over, isn?...
After shouting slurs at the Harvard bench and forcing the Crimson squad to move to the pool’s opposite side to communicate during a timeout, the Brown supporters were escorted from the Blodgett Pool stands and their beverages were confiscated...
...Leavy is less interested in the ballplayer than in the man and in how the world reacts to him. His closest friends on the Dodgers were usually the subs at the end of the bench. When a former player approaches Koufax for an autograph, she writes, he blanches because a "peer [has] become an acolyte." As one of the very greatest of living ballplayers, still venerated by fans--especially Jewish fans, who embraced him with a fervor bordering on idolatry--Koufax could build a very profitable life out of his fame, yet he appears at maybe one autograph show...
...move rarely expected outside Yankee Stadium, two men in the stands at Chicago's Comiskey Park charged the field during the top of the ninth inning and attacked Tom Gamboa, first-base coach of the visiting Kansas City Royals, and began beating him. The Royals immediately cleared the bench and piled on the two men, identified as WILLIAM LIGUE JR., 34, and his 15-year-old son. Security guards entered the fray and dragged the shirtless duo off the field, after which a folded pocket knife was found on the ground. As for motivation, besides utter stupidity, the elder Ligue...