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...Mets have skipped through the regular season. After they started 10-2 in April, no division foe, not even the 14-time defending division champion Atlanta Braves, has mounted a threat. For the play-offs, the only concern is the health of New York's starting pitchers--particularly Martinez. A calf injury put Pedro on the DL in August, and he has been inconsistent since returning. Glavine missed two weeks in August with blood clots in his left ring finger but insists he has never felt stronger in his 20-year career. A weak National League offers the Mets...
...DIED. Mickey Hargitay, 80, hunky Budapest-born athlete who rose to fame as a champion bodybuilder and actor whose films included Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, co-starring his then wife, screen siren Jayne Mansfield; in Los Angeles. In the mid-'50s the newly anointed Mr. Universe caught the eye of an aging Mae West, who hired him as one of eight loincloth-clad musclemen in her popular nightclub revue. He met Mansfield at a performance, where the impressed star is said to have told a waiter, "I'll have a steak and the man on the left...
DIED. Mickey Hargitay, 80, hunky Budapest-born athlete who immigrated to the U.S. in the late 1940s and rose to fame as a champion bodybuilder and actor whose films included Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, co-starring his then wife, screen siren Jayne Mansfield (together, at left); in Los Angeles. In the mid-'50s the newly anointed Mr. Universe--whose daughter Mariska tearily thanked her dad onstage last month when accepting an Emmy for her role on NBC's Law & Order: SVU--caught the eye of an aging Mae West, who hired him as one of eight loincloth-clad musclemen...
Freshman Lena Litvak of the Harvard women’s tennis team made quite an impression at the Cissie Leary Memorial Invitational, held this weekend at the University of Pennsylvania. Litvak emerged as the tournament’s champion both in singles play and also when paired with junior Stephanie Schnitter in doubles competition. Litvak cruised to the singles championship, easily besting Columbia’s Milena Kachar 6-1, 6-2. In doubles play, Litvak and Schnitter took on Yulia Rivelis and Julia Koulbitskaya, representing host Penn. Schnitter and Litvak took the victory, 8-5. Other Crimson representatives...
...side, Clifton Dawson simultaneously pushed Yale and the 2005 Harvard football season into history. The Nov. 19 triple-overtime victory on the Crimson’s greatest stage was an emphatic conclusion to a late-season surge through injuries and turnovers that helped Harvard finish second to surprise league champion Brown.Just three days later, as has long been the custom for the Crimson’s squad, it was announced at the team’s end-of-season banquet that linebacker Matt Thomas had won a close election for captain of the 2006 unit, replacing the graduating Erik Grimm...