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Curt Schilling is the more talkative half of the greatest one-two pitching combination in baseball today. He and fellow Arizona Diamondback ace Randy Johnson were co-MVPs in last year?s World Series. Tonight Schilling will play in his fifth All-Star game. He tells TIME's Mitch Frank what it?s like to be an All-Star, whether players should be tested for steroids and how computers help give him an edge...
...explains a $23,000 bid on eBay last week for bone chips removed from the elbow of Seattle Mariners pitcher JEFF NELSON, which he had put up for auction for charity. It was not unprecedented. Recently a man paid $10,000 for a piece of gum chewed by Arizona Diamondback Luis Gonzalez, and another paid $75 for clippings from the goatee of Oakland A Tim Hudson. Neither of those transactions took place on eBay, however, which has rules against selling body parts. As soon as the bone-chip listing was discovered by eBay employees, the lot was removed...
...capture better the fighting spirit of their sports teams, many colleges are redesigning their logos and mascots with more of a World Wrestling Federation feel. The University of Maryland is one of the latest institutions of higher learning to update its mascot. Officials hope that their newly buff diamondback Terrapin turtle, Testudo, will put a little fear in the hearts of opposing sports teams. Temple and Brigham Young universities also recently toughened up their sports icons (the former's owl symbol is now in attack mode, and the latter's cougar was made fiercer). Redesigns can flop...
...Pitching prevailed in this Series, and the Diamondback All Star duo, Schilling and Johnson, accounted for the four wins, besting the best rotation in the American League: Andy Pettitte (0-2), Roger Clemens (0-0), Mike Mussina (0-0), and Orlando Hernandez (0-0). And, had manager Bob Brenly not given Schilling the hook too early in Game 3, a seventh game might not have been necessary...
...That?s because the Yanks pulled a couple of miracles out of their pockets to leave New York on a three-game win streak. On Wednesday and Thursday in the Bronx they had conjured pinstripe sorcery on successive, sensational evenings to snatch extra inning victories in games that the Diamondbacks were within an out of claiming. On Wednesday, Tino Martinez hit a two-run homer in the 9th with two out to tie it, and Derek Jeter won it in the 10th with as cheap a homer as you can hit in Babe?s Place. The improbable wins filled Yankee...