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...There are so many candidates. You get really useless stats when you break them down into very small at-bats. So the stuff that appears on centerfield scoreboards during ballgames, a very high percentage of it tends to be totally useless. It's of the nature of - and I'm not trying to parody it - it's of the nature of, "John Robinson hit .396 after the sixth inning this year." You know, as if he had an ability to hit after the sixth inning. It's virtually impossible to explain how such a thing happens. Looking at the data...
...Well, the Yankees are kind of moving on to the future. There's something I call Sam's Law - after Sam Rich, an attorney from Pittsburgh who has been a friend of mine for many years. Sam's Law is that young pitchers will break your heart. I think that when teams go into a pennant race depending on young pitching, it very often it takes a year or two for that young pitching to be as good as you thought it would be. The Yankees have that problem, and we have that problem - we're depending on [Jon] Lester...
...imbued with idealism, like the Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance and the United Front for Liberation and Development, but their political goals are ill defined, and their chief concern seems to be maintaining their fiefs against rivals rather than protecting the civilians they claim to represent. Alliances form, only to break again, often for no greater reason than the personal ambitions of their leaders and the inevitable clashes they provoke. "It's like a play," says Azzedine Zerual, a project director with unicef in north Darfur. "'You are my friend today, but you will be my enemy tomorrow.' Maybe...
...However the break comes, there won't be any doubt who's breaking up with whom. White House spokesperson Dana Perino said today the President would be giving McCain his "full-throated" support. "Their similarities when it comes to protecting the country and keeping taxes low are key to the G.O.P. winning in 2008," Perino says. "Their differences are insignificant when it comes to that." And they'll be able to show that together on the campaign trail - assuming, of course, the President's busy schedule allows...
...brew of sectarianism and politics causes as much excitement as the athletes. All 12 of Lebanon's semi-professional basketball teams have some sort of religious or political affiliation. And despite the fact that fans from rival teams are segregated into stands on opposite sides of the court, fights break out so regularly that the government barred all spectators from league games for a few months last year. Even when there's no violence, games resemble political rallies - with flags, political salutes and the chanting of slogans hailing political leaders - rather than simply sporting events...