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...With four pitches?fastball, curve, slider and splitter?that he can throw for strikes, Ishii has quickly gained the respect of some of the game's Elite hitters. "I got one pitch I felt I could hit, and I popped it up," 2000 National League batting champ Todd Helton of the Colorado Rockies told the Denver Post after striking out twice in the Dodgers' 9-2 win April 6. "Other than that, he made me look like a child...
...politically correct for former heavyweight champ Hasim Rahman to question reigning champion Lennox Lewis’ sexual orientation, and perhaps less correct for Lewis to ask for Rahman’s sister to set the record straight. Nonetheless, when the two wrestled in a pre-fight meeting on ESPN, Rahman succeeded in doing something that no previous Lewis opponent had done: allowed the champ to show that he at least some of the personality required to be a fighter...
Table tennis enthusiast David B. Adelman ’04 met the Ghanaian champ after seeing him in action at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC). At first, Adelman says, he thought the stocky older gentleman was just watching the action, but he soon realized “that guy is amazing!” Kyerematen says he likes to surprise unknowing observers at the MAC who see only “an older guy with a belly” and underestimate his sprightliness. He thanks ping-pong for keeping him young and wishes to play as long...
...Dartmouth (11-15, 7-6) have switched roles as champion and spoiler. Dartmouth enters the game having won four straight Ivy games over Columbia, Cornell, Brown and Yale, and will no doubt be highly motivated to close out its season by topping the league champ...
LITTLE SHOT In the ever escalating race to build a smaller camera, Minolta's new DiMage X ($399) is the current flyweight champ. It's the size of a deck of cards, weighs in at just 4.8 oz., stands about 3 in. tall but takes relatively hefty 2-megapixel pictures. It can also shoot a 35-sec. movie and comes with a 168-MB media storage card that holds a whopping 130 images. It's the perfect pocket partner for big shots...