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Professional tennis players call it "the Luxilon shot," and, apparently, you can hear it coming. The ball crosses the net hissing and spitting like some enraged tropical insect. Its most lethal element is its topspin, which can dip the ball crosscourt in short angles so extreme that "the game has gone from linear to parabolic," as ex-pro turned coach Scott McCain recently put it. "It's like ping-pong out there...
...Missouri, No. 7 Minnesota, No. 2 Cornell, and a championship at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational.Although it appeared that Caputo could not compete better than he did from day one, an epiphany awaited the grappler at NCAAs. After a season of fairly conservative play, Caputo found his offensive game against Patterson, prompting an enthusiastic reaction from his coach.“It’s hard to wrestle Louis, because he’s stronger than five bulls,” Weiss praised. “It’s one thing to have a defensive style, but [Caputo...
...Every so often, an enigmatic situation or occurrence drastically changes a contest, and no one knows what exactly happened. The force was present when Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner was stricken by the “Curse of the Bambino,” botching a ground ball during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series. It was there when the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots in the closing seconds of Super Bowl XLIII, ruining the Patriots’ undefeated season. In these situations, rational explanations rarely suffice.The force struck again on the night...
...about how it was before, in the time of no time. Everything was everything, as the elders once foretold it would no longer be. Chicken was egg, up was down, pizza was tree. That was a cool story he told me. Yale made it to the Olympic games and got disqualified. Why? Because they were robots and robots can’t play in the Olympics. Yale gave steroids to A-Rod and Manny Ramirez, and they said, ‘Take this, it will ruin the game of baseball for millions of Americans, wouldn’t that...
...Call it a layover, hangover, whatever phrases you want to use,” Amaker said. “It was not that they lost the game. We won the game...