Word: crockett
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Back when women were considered the weaker sex, it wasn't easy for them to learn and practice the outdoor skills men like Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett used to survive in the wilderness. Now it is. In weekend workshops organized by Becoming an Outdoors-Woman, a woman can acquire sufficient know-how to become a mountain woman--or, if she prefers, a desert, valley or ocean woman. Because BOW's courses are offered in 44 states and nine Canadian provinces, she can hunt elk in Montana on one weekend and wild turkeys in Wisconsin, or deer in Texas...
Righthander Ben Crockett, who blitzed his way into the starting rotation with high-80s cheese and also developed a curve and a sidearm fastball en route to a 5-1 record with a 4.88 ERA. Crockett shared Ivy Rookie of the Year honors with Princeton's two-sport standout Chris Young, likely to represent Crockett's nemesis for the next three years...
With the staff's best control (47 strikeouts, six walks in 51.2 innings), Crockett was a weekend mainstay and went 4-0 with a 3.69 ERA in five league starts...
...Going in, we knew we had a good staff," Vail said. "It was a staff with a lot of experience from guys like Birtwell, Donny Jamieson and Andrew Duffell, but Crockett really stepped up this season, and he's going to be hard to beat in the next three years...
Enter Davy Crockett...er...I mean, former President Gerald Ford, a Michigan alumnus who last week wrote an extraordinary opinion piece for the New York Times, defending the race-conscious admission policies that are at the core of the Michigan cases. Ford warned that if the courts forbid Michigan to use race, along with other factors that the school employs to select its student body--including economic standing, geographic origin, athletic and artistic achievement--they would turn back the clock to an era when minorities "were isolated and penalized for the color of their skin...or national ancestry." He recounted...