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Back home in New Jersey, fat men didn't bellow songs in his honor. Back home women didn't stare while he shopped, kids didn't knock on his door for his signature, people didn't, as he says, consider their lives complete if they just got a whiff of his cologne. One day last summer Tim Howard was a 24-year-old from North Brunswick who happened to play soccer for a living; supremely gifted and almost wholly obscure. He could walk through his local mall wearing a jersey with his name stitched...
Winning the Most Outstanding Wrestler award was by no means a foregone conclusion for Jantzen. The other wrestlers in consideration for the honor were Nebraska's No. 1 Jason Powell (125 lbs.), who scored a technical fall over Illinois' No. 6 Kyle Ott, and No. 1 Oklahoma State's Chris Pendleton (174 lbs.) who defeated Missouri’s No. 6 Ben Askren 11-4 and had a pin and a technical fall earlier in the tourney...
...honor of St. Patrick’s Day on Wednesday, protesters carried a banner reading, “Commercial Cleaning: You Can Keep Your Pot O’ Gold, Just Give Us Enough...
...native’s blistering groundstrokes—coupled with a mental approach maturing by each match—have earned Li a starting spot on the lineup of the Harvard men’s tennis team. He is, by the way, the only freshman to claim such an honor...
...McGirk: It may sound mediaeval, but Pashtun culture places a higher value on honor than on life. Al-Qaeda operatives in the tribal areas are believed to be living with local families, and some - particularly Uzbeks and Chechens - are said to have married into local families. In the eyes of the tribesmen, for government troops to go in and destroy the houses and force the families off ancestral land is a big no-no. What we're seeing is that because of harsh government action, a lot of tribesmen who couldn't care less about giving sanctuary to Zawahiri...