Word: gant
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...Louis--Ray Lankford is hurt. When he gets back, the team's outfield of Lankford plus Brian Jordon and Ron Gant will be awesome. The starters are good, but how long can the ancient bullpen including Dennis Eckersley and Rick Honeycutt hold...
That is, if you want star outfielder Ron Gant with a broken leg due to reckless mountain biking. Anyway, his injury happened just after he signed a unguaranteed contract with Atlanta. So the Cost-conscious Braves (owned by Ted Turner) cut him from the roster...
...healing and a couple teams are thinking hard about signing the invalid up. Boston seemed to be thinking about it, since Gant's old Atlanta friend, Otis Nixon, is the Sox' center fielder. But the front office wants a multi year deal...
Braves left fielder Ron Gant's hot streak would have been less important. The games the two teams played head-to-head wouldn't have been as intense. Both teams are so far ahead of the rest of the National League West that neither would have played as hard for this last handful of games. With the new system, longstanding rivalries like that of the Braves and the Giants will be destroyed. Sure, new rivalries might crop up. But some of the best teams in baseball won't play each other as often. And America will lose a tradition...
...word of a black with an arrest record against the word of one or more cops: this time there was hard evidence in the form of a tape on which the jurors, like hundreds of millions of TV viewers around the world, could actually see the beating. Says Robin Gant, a student at Hofstra University School of Law in Hempstead, N.Y.: "When the beating first happened, the black community felt this is our chance to show that, yes, we do have rights and you can't beat us within an inch of our lives and get away with...