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When the Harvard women’s volleyball team dropped three straight games to open its season, junior middle hitter Mariah Pospisil remained positive...
...Near the end of a brilliant career, at age 38 Bonds is widely regarded as the best hitter in the game today - perhaps the best ever. He is also a riddle wrapped in a cocoon of handlers and protected by a bulky "Barry Bonds" elbow pad. He is famously disliked, by sportswriters, certainly (Rick Reilly, for one, wrote an unkind, and unfair, piece about Bonds in Sports Illustrated last year), and by at least some of his teammates. One in Pittsburgh, where he played his first seven years, famously said he would "rather lose without Barry than win with...
...world of baseball is so well known, and so highly regarded, that the question as the Series begins is not so much "Will the Angels (or Giants) win?" as it is "Will the Angels pitch to Barry Bonds?" The San Francisco Giants outfielder, by far the best hitter in the game, is a kind of black hole, a gravitational force that warps everything around him, and all the talk of the baseball world this week centered on whether the Angels would simply give Bonds a free pass to first base rather than risk that he'd do even greater damage...
Sophomore outside hitters Pernilla Schweitzer and Ashley Atkins added nine and eight digs, respectively. Junior outside hitter Amy Dildine chipped in 11 kills...
Junior outside hitter Nathalie Miller went down late in the first game with an ankle injury, but the Crimson was relieved by the return of Schweitzer...