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...have a manager, Terry Francona, who failed at his prior stop as big-league skipper, but is now universally adored by his players. Doesn't he sound like Joe Torre, who had lost at all his previous managerial posts, but leaves the Yanks beloved like Yogi Berra? Young Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon saved three games in his first World Series, a performance reminiscent of Yankee reliever Mariano Rivera, perhaps the best post-season stopper of all time...
...Joe Price, religious studies professor at Whittier College (Calif.) and author of Rounding the Bases: Baseball and Religion in America, also thinks the Rockies should make more of their beliefs. "Nobody seems to complain when Tiger Woods promotes economic sponsorship by wearing the Nike swoosh on this shirt," says Price. "What's the difference with promoting religious affiliation? Isn't that more wholesome...
...Joe Klein pointed out that Merle Haggard sees right through the Republican strategy of frightening us into voting Republican [Oct. 22]. This fearmongering seems to work on the Republican Party's base of white males. Their continued support for the Iraq war is based on the same fear, even though Bush himself has admitted that Iraq had no connection with 9/11...
...present presidential campaign, some of Giuliani's rivals have receded (John McCain), and some have even reseeded (Joe Biden, whose scalp is less spartan than it used to be), but none are nakedly, unabashedly bald. Not even Homer Simpson, who announced his candidacy to David Letterman and combs his pair of hairs to the right, a two-string comb-over that still leaves him two strings shy of a ukulele...
Both teams are coming off of frustrating losses last weekend--Brown blew a 17-point third-quarter lead at Cornell and Penn let unbeaten Yale slip through its fingers in overtime. And they play with contrasting styles. Penn prefers to wear down foes with rugged running back Joe Sandberg. Brown is airing it out with QB Michael Dougherty, who has already surpassed the 2,000-yard mark. Quakers by a red, spongy clown nose...