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...fabled Golden Aphrodite! Also known as Kallipygos (Beautiful Buttocks). Borne full-blown from the sea (aphros means foam; -dite rhymes with nightie). Worshiped for centuries by amorous couples coupling clamorously. She was Homer's Goddess of Pure and Heavenly Love, but we forget that Homer was blind. So, alas, are we. Turns out that Aphrodite (Venus to you Romans) was not Ms. Clean at all but the Goddess of Naughty Sex. It is she we can thank for most + of mankind's sexual problems, and chief among these is our obsession with her elusive elixir, the aphrodisiac...
...third and still nobody out, Brandeis brought in a righthander to face righty DH Tim Hurley. Coach Alex Nahigian went against the percentages and kept in Hurley. And the junior responded by lofting a high fly to left that just cleared the foul pole for a three-run homer that extended the Crimson lead...
...Monday, the Cubbies were 8-2 and riding a seven-game winning streak. Monday night, I had this vision: Andre Dawson hitting a homer in the bottom of the ninth against the Mets to clinch the pennant. Then, Mark Grace would homer to defeat the Texas Rangers to win the World Series. Yes, 1989, the year of the Cubbie. Players such as Mitch Webster, Mitch Williams, Paul Kilgus and Shawon Duston would become Cub legends...
...bottom of the inning, sophomore Ted Decareau set his sights on the 375-ft. sign in centerfield--and drove home two runs with his third homer of the season. But Yale (8-16 overall, 2-6 EIBL) opened it up in the seventh with two more runs, and Harvard didn't recover...
With two out and two on, Crusader catcher Michelle Fagnant bombed a three-run homer to break the scoreless deadlock...