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DIED. SHIRLEY POVICH, 92, irrepressible Washington Post sports columnist whose career stats--more than 15,000 articles in seven decades--made him the Cal Ripken of the beat; in Washington. Povich scored his first byline in 1924 and was soon a breakfast staple for Washington's sports addicts: President Nixon called his column "the only reason" to read the Post. But Povich's prose transcended the play-by-play; he championed such causes as integration, writing in 1946: "Four hundred and fifty-five years after Columbus eagerly discovered America, major league baseball reluctantly discovered the American Negro...
...frail funk, preoccupied by short skirts, long nails and yo-yo dieting. She has mother issues, toxic-married-men issues, smoking issues and VCR-programming issues. She affects irony, so you know she is deadly serious about her postfeminist problems--find a gym, find a guy, find a low-cal chocolate. If only she would find a life. And a brain...
...only speculate on what thoughts coursed through Ralph's head as he took two pitches from Tulane reliever Scott Bell. His impending professional career? His shameful 2-for-11 no-show in the Regional up to that point? His near-grand slam that would have tied Game One against Cal State-Fullerton...
...Crimson returned to Cambridge with a 2-4 record, losing to nationally ranked teams UC-Santa Barbara (No. 11) and Long Beach State (No. 6), twice to team it could well have beaten--Cal State-San Bernardino and La Verne. The lonewins were expected conquests of Claremont McKennaand Pomona Pitzer...
After its excursion to Florida, Harvard headed to the West Coast for a 19-game, spring break swing through California. Harvard sandwiched three doubleheaders between the Sacramento State Tournament and the Cal State-Hayward Tournament, going 8-11 for the week against some of the nation's top teams...