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Perhaps you prefer the heartbreak of Alex Fernandez's story. A Miami product, Fernandez finally got the chance to play in front of his family and friends this season when the Marlins signed him last winter...
After a fantastic season and a phenomenal performance in the first round of the playoffs against the Giants, Fernandez tore the rotator cuff in his pitching arm. Although he is done for the year and his career is in jeopardy, he continues to be his teammates' primary cheerleader on the bench...
...baseball's oldest story: Veteran player gets hurt, rookie steps in and amazes everyone. Sunday's version came in the person of 22-year-old Livan Hernandez, starting only because neither Alex Fernandez nor Kevin Brown was able to. Hernandez responded with one of the great pitching performances of the postseason, striking out 15 Braves as the Marlins won 2-1. Meanwhile, it's time to bring out those "Only eight teams have ever come back from a 3-1 deficit" clich?s: After last night's wild 8-7 win over Baltimore, Cleveland is one game away from the World...
DIED. GABRIEL FIGUEROA, 90, Mexican camera poet; in Mexico City. Working with such top directors as Luis Bunuel (seven films), John Ford and Emilio Fernandez, this superb cinematographer illuminated many a craggy vista, from the parched roads in John Huston's The Night of the Iguana to the face of Clint Eastwood (in Two Mules for Sister Sara). Through Figueroa's lens, they all looked stark, profound, beautiful...
Reaction to the Supreme Court's non-decision was as swift as a Lisa Fernandez fastball, as dramatic as a Kerri Strug vault. "It's the greatest single legal action in the history of women's sports," said Donna de Varona, the Olympic swimmer and first president of the Women's Sports Foundation. "It's bad law," says Southern Cal athletic director Mike Garrett, voicing a concern that the Brown ruling will spur lawsuits against schools that are earnestly trying to upgrade women's sports...