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...those of you out there who aren’t regularly accused of music snobbery, congratulations for making it this far. Allow me to explain. For the past few years, Pitchforkmedia.com has been the reigning champ of online music criticism for that amorphous pseudo-genre we indulgently call “indie music”. Every weekday, their crack team of critics (including our very own indierati prince, Nick A. Sylvester ’04) post up news, reviews, interviews, and features, offering guidance to thousands of kids looking for their daily fix of interesting sounds...
DIED. GEORGE ARCHER, 65, towering golf champ known for his exacting putting stroke; of Burkitt's lymphoma, a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; at his home in Incline Village, Nev. Though the 6-ft. 5-in. Archer tried to follow his father's advice to pursue basketball--"where the hole is way up there," as the son recalled him saying--he went on to win 12 P.G.A. championships, including the 1969 Masters, and 19 events on the 50-and-older Champions Tour...
...There’s no question that games like this one play an impact on your ability to get an at-large berth should you not win your conference,” Lembo said. “We’re playing the Atlantic-10 champion, the Ivy League champ, and the Northeast Conference champ (Monmouth) from last season...
...Chavez came out at the bell with a barrage of body shots and combination punches to the head that left Johnson propped up against the ring ropes, unable to fall while Chavez unloaded. Just 38 seconds into the round, referee Tony Weeks stopped the match. Chavez was the new champ. Johnson told fight doctors he felt fine but then he listlessly shuffled down the walkway to his dressing room, as though he were in some sort of trance. He collapsed and was rushed to University Medical Center in Las Vegas. He had suffered a subdural hematoma, or bleeding...
...home against Patriot League champ Lafayette kicked off a 4-1 start in 2004 that saw Princeton fall just three points short—at then-top 15 Colgate, no less—of an undefeated first half...