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...quality is what led the 6’0, 190 lb Flintian east two years ago. After being named a first-team All-American shortstop by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association his junior year—he is Harvard’s only player to receive such an honor during his prep career—he was recruited by baseball powers like Stanford and Georgia Tech and scouted by all thirty Major League teams. But Salsgiver turned down scholarship offers, six-figure signing bonuses and an assured place in the top 10 rounds of the MLB draft to live...
...said that in the end Ma’s accomplishments won him the honor...
Winning the outstanding wrestler award was by no means a foregone conlusion for Jantzen. The other wrestlers in consideration for the honor were Nebraska’s No. 1 Jason Powell (125 lbs.), who scored a technical foul over Illinois’ No. 6 Kyle Ott, and No. 1 Oklahom State’s Chris Pendleton (174 lbs.) who defeated Missouri’s No. 6 Ben Askren 11-4 and had both a pin and a technical fall earlier in the tourney...
...just being too happy about your touchdown costs you money. But the NHL, despite an influx of European players, is still a sport born of parts of Canada that most people don't own enough Gore-Tex to visit. It's full of mafioso laws about protection and honor. And while it would seem sensible for the NHL to eliminate fighting altogether, it can't. "Some people don't like it, some people like it, other people like it in moderation," says NHL executive vice president Bill Daly. "But there hasn't been this huge...
College basketball players usually get e-mail from adoring teenage girls or trash-talking students from a rival school. So how does Nick Welch, star player at the Air Force Academy, feel when alums in Iraq send notes that say his team inspires their squadrons? "It's a great honor," says Welch. "But we have it easy. I have much more respect for what they're doing...