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Since Bonds might be the world's most stubborn superstar, however, he may well stick by his "I'm playing" pledge. Forget about the indictment. Forget about fact that he has nothing left to prove, that he might be the greatest hitter of all time, in spite of the steroid allegations. And that he's made more than enough money to pay his legal bills. No, Bonds knows that if he just stepped aside and fought his trial, too many people, like commissioner Bud Selig, would rejoice. So he'll try to stay...
...points to take a 27-25 lead. After a quick back and forth between the two sides, junior Kathryn McKinley put the game away with a kill.“We really had to battle back in that third game to win it,” said senior outside hitter Laura Mahon. “We worked so hard.”The fourth game was a black and orange blur, as the Tigers jumped out to a 7-0 lead and piled a 7-2 run on top of it to go up 14-2 in the early going...
...Then my friend made the mistake—a cardinal sin really—of revealing a dispassionate aesthetic appreciation for the game of baseball, complimenting a Colorado Rockies’ hitter with a pretty innocuous observation: “Good eye, there.” Of course, this elicited a cacophony of jeers and a Manichaean, even Bush-like inquisition to determine if he was in fact “with us or against...
...some key errors. The aggression was there, but we just weren’t competitive enough.” Mahon led the Crimson in kills, successfully putting the ball away eight times.A tense moment came towards the end of the second game, when captain and middle hitter Suzie Trimble went down with a left ankle injury and had to be helped off the court. She did not return and watched the rest of the match from the bench with an ice pack on her ankle.Despite a solid performance by senior Lauren Las, who filled in for Trimble with four kills...
...lousy stadium, capricious weather and high altitude. When baseball finally caved, its reward came swiftly: the Rockies' opening day drew 80,227 to old Mile High Stadium--still the largest single-game turnout in baseball history--and first-year attendance totaled 4.5 million. These were happy days, particularly when hitter-friendly Coors Field was christened in 1995 and the team scooted into the NL playoffs...