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Like many banished to New Jersey, Kidd didn't arrive a hero. He left the Phoenix Suns in part because the likable guy blew it big time when he punched his wife Joumana in the face in front of their son T.J. in January 2001. The couple, who remain together, say it was a one-time event. But Joumana's 911 call, which led to his arrest, told a different story: "This is minor compared to what I usually go through," she said. Kidd took four games off to deal with his family and then wrote a letter of apology...
...that could be expected over generations. Sakharov pleaded with Khrushchev to discontinue bomb testing, and wept in "unbearable bitterness, shame and humiliation" when his urgings to the leaders of the country he had helped to make a superpower were rebuffed. By the 1960s, Sakharov was both an oft-decorated Hero of the Soviet Union and an increasingly astute figure politically, moving "toward purer science and toward the highly impure world of social activism." He became an outspoken critic of repression, an intervener on behalf of dissidents and a force within the nascent Soviet human- rights movement. Years were marked...
Sophomore Tyler Kolarik played the hero, beating Ken Dryden Award-winner Matt Underhill from the left faceoff circle with 2:49 to play in the second overtime, giving his team its first league title since...
After a Tiger touchdown pulled Princeton within a score, another unsung hero, senior linebacker Eric LaHaie, tackled running back Cameron Atkinson in the backfield and forced the potential game-winning field goal attempt back a few yards. The 49-yard attempt from Tiger kicker Taylor Northrup sailed just wide left as Harvard won 28-26, dodging another bullet on its march to a perfect season...
...Harvard’s fourth straight Beanpot title. In the tournament semifinals, the Crimson stunned heavily favored host Northeastern, which was ranked second in the nation at the time. It was also the fourth straight year Harvard had beaten the Huskies in overtime. While Botterill had been the hero each of the past three years, this time it was sophomore winger Lauren McAuliffe achieving the feat...