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...already won,' declared Hank Steinbrecher, the general secretary of U.S. Soccer, even before the American women's team's draining, dramatic penalty-kick shoot-out win over China on Saturday, 'no matter what the score is going to be.' But when defender Brandi Chastain blasted the team's fifth penalty kick past Chinese goalkeeper Gao Hong after 120 scoreless minutes, including two overtime periods, the American put a fitting exclamation point on a summer of soccer that had swept the nation off its feet ... This sweet, sweet victory was very much an act of faith...
Unscripted is far better done than K Street, maybe because its "real" people--actors like Hank Azaria and Bonnie Hunt, directors like Garry Marshall and Sam Mendes--are used to Hollywood fakery. It does, however, dip into show-biz-is-a-bummer clich??s, especially with Jen and Bryan. One story line has another actor horning in on Bryan's auditions, a plot recently explored on NBC's Joey--not the kind of comparison HBO generally angles...
Barry Bonds is a contact hitter who seems on his way to eclipsing Hank Aaron's career home-run record of 755. But it is Bonds' confirmed contact with illegal steroids that sent runners into motion last week to confront the biggest drug scandal in baseball history. Suddenly the most open secret in the sport was out, and it implicated baseball's biggest star and the titanic records he had accumulated. "I will leave no stone unturned in accomplishing our goal of zero tolerance by the start of spring training," vowed Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig in New York...
...electric (but pre-rock and roll) feel. The disc features omnipresent Silvertone-esque guitars channeled through what sounds like fuzzy vintage Fender Frontman amps. With a couple of exceptions, the songs are written by Golightly herself but sound like they could have come from the likes of Patsy Cline, Hank Williams or Loretta Lynn...
...equating Hank Aaron, one of the classiest acts in professional sports, with Ron Artest? Well, let’s just say that Artest was charged with just one count of assault and battery on Wednesday night—a misdemeanor that carries, at maximum, three months of jail-time and a $500 fine. I think we can say that Lady Justice agrees with...