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...Vatican office that oversees doctrinal orthodoxy. His choice of the then Archbishop of San Francisco, William J. Levada, was the first sign that Benedict would take his own counsel on key personnel changes. Defying conventional wisdom that the doctrinal capo had to be a European intellectual heavy hitter, the Pope chose the shy California native whom he'd known well when they worked together in Rome in the early 1980s. By choosing Levada it was also evident that the Vatican's theologian-in-chief would remain the former Cardinal Ratzinger...
...current crop of rookie hurlers the best in baseball history? Consider: Marlins righty Anibal Sanchez, 22, left, threw the first no-hitter since '04 last week--and he's not the top prospect on his team. The rooks have pitched some clubs into contention and look primed to pile up Cy Young awards. Here's the most dazzling of the baby-faced bunch...
...points through the middle of the frame, Rutgers (3-6) slowly increased its lead and won 10 of the last 15 points to take the opener, 30-24.The next two games, however, it was the Harvard offense that was in sync. Led by the outstanding play of senior middle hitter Katie Turley-Molony, the Crimson posted 32 total kills and just six errors and steamrolled to victories of 30-22 and 30-15 to take a 2-1 match lead.“Some of our hitters really turned it on,” Weiss said. “Our setting...
...MONSTER SETH MNOOKIN NOT TO SPOIL IT or anything, but the 2004 Boston Red Sox had a pretty good year. Yup. Their first in a while. The surprise is what came before it: the youngest general manager in baseball looked at a bunch of underrated players (like power hitter David Ortiz), fussy eccentrics (Nomar Garciaparra, he of the glove-tugging ritual) and petulant superstars (Manny Ramirez) and saw champs. It's both a Moneyball-style triumph of smart management over conventional wisdom and a redemptive story of athletic success as an expression of inner strength...
...senior, once acclaimed for his unique ambidexterity on the mound, broke out in two new ways this year: first, on the hill, going 4-0 as a weekend starter for head coach Joe Walsh; and second, becoming a regular in the thick of the Harvard lineup at designated hitter, posting an eye-opening .288 average. Prior to this season, Brunnig had nothing more than one at-bat in college, as a freshman. But in 2006, one of the highlights of the senior’s renaissance came during the division-clinching win against Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. The senior threw...