Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whatever they were, they evanesced as Bell wound up from the stretch, and broke off a hanging breaking ball. Six thousand surrogate fans who had adopted Harvard in the absence of hometown LSU gasped in unison, and Ralph pounced, drilling his team-record 10th home run of the season over the right-centerfield wall while the stadium erupted into its Cajun chant of "Geaux Harvard Geaux...
Senior tackle Matt Birk was a unanimous First-Team Ivy selection and was selected by his hometown team, the Minnesota Vikings, in the sixth round of the NFL draft. Birk cleared a swath for the other unanimous Harvard selection, sophomore running back Chris Menick. Menick set school records for season rushing yardage (1267) and touchdowns...
...Houston is just the town to do it in. "Texas is the perfect place for a push like this. Hispanics have become a formidable voting bloc," says Branegan. Plus -- and of course this will sound cynical -- Houston is the hometown of one Governor George W. Bush, the front-runner to take on Al Gore...
...this in a raucous Alex Box Stadium in downtown Baton Rouge, whose 2,014 fans in attendance tried all afternoon to pump the Crimson to an upset, which would have benefited the hometown Tigers...
With Kay Denhardt, the reasons for getting online were not financial; they were physical. Four years ago, she had surgery for a brain tumor. Afterward, Denhardt, now 56, wanted information she couldn't find in her hometown of Newark, Ohio. "It was really hard for me at first after surgery," Denhardt says. "I had memory problems. I lost my hearing, and some of my face atrophied. Doctors don't tell you about things like that." When her daughter Teresa moved home to help, she introduced her mom to the Internet. Denhardt searched the Web, learning about new drugs and joining...