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...also the opportunity to build friendships, learn teamwork, grow. The Danny Almonte case is a contravention of opportunity. What Felipe wanted most, it seems, was a chance for his son to play big-league baseball, and to seize this opportunity, he deprived his son of his boyhood and education. Danny's wrongful place on the team deprived another of a spot. His presence on the mound deprived the teams he faced of a chance to bat against a boy their size. The scandal's wreckage robbed his teammates--and the Bronx--of a moment...
Fifty years ago, in my boyhood, a guy who blew out a mitral valve was sent home to sit in a sunny corner and play cribbage until congestive heart failure swept him away. Open-heart surgery was big news. One of the pioneers was C. Walton Lillehei at the University of Minnesota, a local celebrity on the order of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. The operations were enormously expensive, the survival rate around 50%, and Minnesota has always had plenty of finger waggers to remind you that all that money spent to repair that fat man's aorta could have bought nourishing...
...Flashdance.) With screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart), they took a cue from the Titanic playbook and found its heated romance the perfect device to narrow the distance between a great historical happening and today's essentially antihistorical audience. Two strapping pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett), friends since boyhood, fall for a hot nurse (Kate Beckinsale). Ultimate sacrifices ensue. It requires the raid on Tokyo by Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle to resolve the romantic conundrum and a lot of audience patience to sit through the dithering...
...costume designer, Michael Kaplan, is the same guy who cut up sweat shirts for Bruckheimer's 1983 Flashdance.) With screenwriter Randall Wallace (Braveheart), they took a cue from the Titanic playbook and composed a central fictional love story. Two strapping pilots (Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett), friends since boyhood, fall for a hot nurse (Kate Beckinsale). Ultimate sacrifices ensue. Authentic figures such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jon Voight), Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle (Alec Baldwin) and heroic black mess attendant Doris "Dorie" Miller (Cuba Gooding Jr.) appear in supporting roles, and the backdrop reaches for historical accuracy--at least until...
...mediocre at two? That had economists wondering if 30-year-old retired sumo wrestler WAKANOHANA's hankering to play in the NFL could be a harbinger of impending Japanese prosperity. The former grand champion has said he's been more attracted to the gridiron than the dojo since boyhood. It would definitely be a career boost; since retiring last year, Waka has shilled for pain poultices and failed at sports announcing. Plus, it would answer an age-old question: What is it within those visually impressive sumo wrestlers struggling mightily to get out? We thought it was gravy...