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...Baltimore Orioles was taking ground balls off the new grass. "Look at him. He's as frisky as a kid," said Elrod Hendricks, the longtime bullpen coach for the Orioles. "You might think he's like that because it's Opening Day. But he's like that every day." Cal Ripken Jr. then bounded over to the stands to sign autographs...
Alas, the no-hitter was lost in the eighth, but the fans still went home happy, albeit wet, after the Royals' 5-1 win. They were talking about Appier's stuff and Cal's streak and Goodwin's catch and the new grass. As Ripken says, smells like baseball...
Eighteen-year-old Alfonso Lopez Jr. was just six weeks short of his high school graduation when, in March 1992, he was caught carrying a .38-cal. handgun on school grounds. Although Lopez insisted that the weapon had simply been given to him by one classmate with instructions to deliver it to another, the San Antonio, Texas, senior suddenly found himself in deep trouble. He had no money for bail, no funds to hire a lawyer and, thanks to a law Congress had passed two years earlier that banned guns within 1,000 ft. of a school, little chance...
While she was recovering, Cheyenne became pregnant by Drollet, the scion of a prominent Tahitian family. Eight months into the pregnancy, she told Christian that Drollet was beating her. Christian confronted her boyfriend with a .45-cal. handgun at Brando's California estate, and in the ensuing struggle, Drollet was killed. "The messenger of misery has come to my house," Brando told attorney William Kunstler that night. Christian, who was represented by both Kunstler and Robert Shapiro, was sentenced to 10 years for manslaughter, but with time off for good behavior, he may be out of prison as early...
Neither the smiling visage of Cal Ripken on the cover of Sports Illustrated nor a banner reading, "Thanks Fans" at the bottom of the Fenway scoreboard should persuade any fan that the ills which continually detract from the purity of sport are cured...