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...Zambrano in the Zone When Carlos Zambrano, Chicago's 6'5", 255-lb. ace, is on his game, few pitchers in the majors are more lethal. Just ask the Houston Astros, against whom Zambrano pitched a scarily dominant no-hitter on Sept. 14 in which just two balls left the infield. "The balance that the Cubs have is tremendous," says Astros general manager Ed Wade. "But I think one thing that separates one club from another is the ability to have a true top-of-the-rotation starter. They've got that in Zambrano...
...first taste of league action, the freshman hitter came out of the gate aggressively against Dartmouth, scoring 19 kills and hitting for .531 in the first round of the tournament. Ingersoll flexed her defensive muscle as well, posting a team high three blocks...
...Watching her play, most people would be surprised that she is a freshman because she is just so smart on the court,” said senior hitter Katherine McKinley. “She is really a unique situation...
...pleasure lies in the piquancy of the writer-state pairings. Some are more obvious--heavy hitter Jonathan Franzen handles New York. Some are less so--imagine the editors' relief when they remembered that Jhumpa Lahiri hails from tiny Rhode Island (which, as she points out, is not an island!). There's something about their home state that puts writers in confessional moods. Picture Anthony Bourdain lighting M-80s ("It's a quarter stick a dynamite!!") as a j.d. in Jersey or a teenage Joshua Ferris cruising the canals of Florida with Jimmy Buffett (at the time he didn't know...
...Laura has improved so much.“We’re almost treating [Mann] like a baseball player,” Leone continued. “We’re playing so many games, and you need one off every once in a while. She was a pinch-hitter [Wednesday].” After witnessing the transition of a very large freshman class last year—and negotiating his own transition from Arizona State to a new program at Harvard—Leone now throws another group of rookies into the fray. Four freshmen started Wednesday night?...