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Robbins was not alone in speaking too soon for the Sox, who promptly gave up three straight singles to score the first run; a wild pitch to plate the second and tie the game at five a-piece; and a flubbed ground ball by first-baseman Bill Buckner that drove in the winning run for New York. This series of errors ended the Sox chances, even though they could have won the series the following night in Game...
Carter co-founded the National Conference of Black Lawyers and received the Federal Bar Council’s Emory Buckner Medal. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Lincoln University and law degrees from Howard and Columbia. Carter will receive a Doctor of Laws degree today...
...teams. Several NFL general managers have named him the best lineman in the game, and ex-Cincinnati Bengals quarterback and CBS commentator Boomer Esiason simply calls Jenkins a ?freak.? Some peers go even further. ?Kris Jenkins is the dominant force in football,? says fellow Panther tackle Brentson Buckner...
...mind, that?s what makes him so special.? New England rookie center Dan Koppen and guard Russ Hochstein, whom Warren Sapp once famously said couldn?t block two middle-aged columnists from the Washington Post, will share Jenkins duty in Houston, but given the talent of fellow Carolina linemen Buckner, Julius Peppers and Michael Rucker, they can?t concern themselves with one player. Says Scarnecchia: ?You can?t do anything special to stop Jenkins, because they?ve got three other guys that can wreck...
...probably a bad idea for Boston ground-keepers to paint the World Series logo on the Fenway Park grass on Thursday. That was tempting the Red Sox's 85-year-old Curse of the Bambino. Or of Buckner. And now Boone--as in Aaron--who smacked an 11th-inning homer to propel the hated-rival Yankees to the World Series. The only memento that Sox fans had to treasure was an editorial in the New York Post lamenting that the Yankees may have "acquired a curse of their own" after losing the seventh game. The editorial, which...