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Some might call The Staff prophetic in its prediction for the outcome of the American League Championship Series (ALCS), but it didn’t take an oracle to know that victory would require a lot of heart from Curt Schilling and a renewed performance from Johnny Damon to get the win. Like all great cinematic stories, the best moments were the comebacks...
...players seemed as excited as the fans; pitcher Pedro Martinez danced to rap music blaring from the duck boats’ loudspeakers as pitcher Curt Schilling waved...
Everybody saw pitcher Curt Schilling. He's the kind of guy--smart, tough, gifted, spitting self-confidence--who sees a curse as a challenge. Schilling, brought to Boston last November specifically to beat the Yankees, amassed 21 victories but came up lame for the first game of the ALCS. New York truncheoned the cripple for six runs in three innings en route to a 10-7 win. It appeared that Schilling, with a dislocated peroneal tendon in his ankle, could not start until late in the series--if the Sox could get to late. But doctors (first testing their unique...
...seven innings, silencing New York studs like Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield and Hideki Matsui. It was a masterful job--and a heroic one, with TV cameras focused on the blood seeping through his sock. It was so gory, it might have been an episode of CSI: Curt Schilling's Incision. After the game, though, someone discarded Schilling's blood-red sock, potentially the most treasured relic since Veronica's veil. It could have netted a bundle on eBay...
...openly wearing his hat and Curt Schilling shirt in the heart of the Bronx, you’d expect that I would be terrified of harassment from the Yankee fans. But the NYPD was literally everywhere—paddy wagons lined the streets and officers strolled through the crowd both before and after the games. In the stadium, there were at least two police officers in every section. In addition, undercover police officers patrolled the scene outside of the stadium, and I personally saw one accost an out-of-control...