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...there on a recent Sunday morning, I learned that it wasn't so much a graduation as a baccalaureate, which is some sort of religious ceremony. This did not work with the remarks I had prepared. I also found out that I was sharing the stage with an ESPN News anchor. Not ESPN, ESPN2, or even ESPN Classic Sports, but ESPN News. I was feeling a little stupid for flying across the country for this...
...season to 9.57 this season. Most of the credit is being given to better enforcement of the strike zone, but after years of looking like deer caught in Ted Nugent's backyard, pitchers are displaying a potent new weapon. "I call it the pitch of the new millennium," says ESPN baseball analyst Harold Reynolds, a former All-Star second baseman. The increasingly popular pitch is just a modified fast ball, but by putting pressure on the inside half of the ball, right-handed pitchers can aim at a left-handed hitter's body and still make it break over...
Looking back on my first year at Harvard, I cannot fathom how I survived without ESPN's SportsCenter, Sunday Night Football, and Wednesday Night Baseball. Additionally, sports fans can only watch half of the Red Sox games because NESN might cost the administration a few extra pennies. Celtics games on Fox Sports New England are unavailable to college students in dorm rooms, as well as any regular season sports...
...ESPN is fine. NESN would be nice, too. But if Summers drives a hard bargain, I guess that demand can be dropped on the cutting room floor and ESPN would suffice (though missing a Pedro game wrenches at my heart--he is, without a doubt, the most enjoyable pitcher to watch in the past 20 years...
...honesty, it is very difficult to stay in touch with the full spectrum of professional sports without cable. Baseball, hockey, and college basketball air on ESPN. The NBA is on TNT. Tennis is broadcast on USA and HBO, and golf has The Golf Channel...