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Sosa, enjoying a career year of his own, is hitting .311 with 58 home runs and 140 RBI, numbers which make him the frontrunner in the N.L. MVP balloting. To the informed fan, he is 1998's true home run champ...
...tagged along with some friends. While not everything I heard fit my definition of poetry, it was a Woodstock of words, images and rhythms that stayed with me for weeks. I got hooked. Now I am defending my title as 1997 Head-to-Head Haiku champ...
...souls. So when MIKE TYSON appeared for his boxing-reinstatement hearing last week before the New Jersey State Athletic Board, he brought along a few character witnesses. Explaining why Tyson might have bitten off a portion of Evander Holyfield's ear in a fight last year, former light-heavyweight champ Bobby Czyz offered, "If I hit an opponent and his eye fell out...I would eat it before he would get it back." Alas, even this touching testimonial did not comfort Tyson. After some tough questioning, the boxer became tearful, then angry, refusing to read his closing statement, and sputtering...
DIED. ROY EVANS, 88, world's savviest table-tennis champ who paddled his best point off the court: in 1971 he landed the U.S. team an invitation to play in China, paving the way for Nixon's historic visit the next year; in his native Cardiff, Wales. A cutthroat competitor, Evans bristled at the term Ping-Pong diplomacy (he considered Ping-Pong an "awful" name) and, in fact, was disappointed in the storied match, grumbling that the Chinese gave away points...
...first two, against Yale and Penn, were decided by one goal. Then the Crimson surprised many, as it gave Princeton--the sixth-ranked team in the nation--all it could handle in a hotly contested 6-4 loss. But eventual Ivy-champ Dartmouth proved to be far too much for Harvard, as it defeated the Crimson 20-7 in the next game...