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Last week I got a reminder from my doctor that it was time for my annual physical. It will probably be the routine drill. He will listen to my lungs, flash his light in my eyes and ask me to cough a couple of times as he examines for a possible hernia. He might run an EKG to test my heart or order an MRI if he sees something suspicious. But that's it. And that's sufficient as far as I'm concerned. I've always left my physicals with a clean bill of health, confident that nothing terrible...
...that meshes nicely with the ethos of the Internet. Though Web mania seems a little over the top at times--does the world need $300 identity rings?--the ideas churning out of South Korea's Internet "lab" could one day make the rest of the world cough up real money for the privilege of joining in its cybertech games...
...seeing as how the team has made it an offseason tradition these past four years. But a spike as steep as this one--the largest ever by the Red Sox and, as far as anyone can tell, the biggest in baseball history as well--was enough to make you cough up your Thanksgiving dinner...
...while, it looked like it wouldn't even get that interesting. The Crimson opened the game with a relentless full-court press that forced Xavier to cough up the ball on each of its first five possessions. Harvard jumped out to an 11-0 lead in the first two minutes...
They're young, they're inexperienced, they'll likely cough the puck up in their own zone a few too many times, and one of the top two defensemen on the team is hurt...