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Chicago Cubs slugger SAMMY SOSA was caught using a corked bat in a game against Tampa Bay. Sosa, the only major leaguer ever to hit 60 home runs in three different seasons, and who shouldn't need a corked bat to thrash the hapless Devil Rays anyway, says the incident was an accident: he picked up the wrong bat. X rays of 76 (!) other bats from Sosa's locker all turned up negative (though the inquiry did determine the cause of global deforestation), but Major League Baseball handed him an eight-game suspension. Sosa is appealing the decision...
...attack, tri-captain Jon Thompson. Thompson currently leads the Ancient Eight in scoring (3.25 goals per game) and notched seven goals in the Bears’ weekend loss to the Hoyas—the No. 1 defense in the country—the most goals scored by an Ivy Leaguer in two years...
Unsurprisingly, given Pearl Jam’s steadfastly political stance and Vedder’s recent Mohawk, the album includes one or two jabs at the prevailing political wind. “He’s not a leader, he’s a Texas leaguer / Swinging for the fence. Got lucky with a strike / Drilling for fear. Makes the job simple / Born on third. Thinks he got a triple,” Vedder sardonically intones on “Bushleager.” But the rest of the album is some of the most personal, intimate material that Pearl...
MARK REACHED. By BARRY BONDS, 38, who hit his 600th home run with a 421-ft. shot to center field at Pacific Bell Park. The San Francisco slugger became only the fourth major-leaguer to attain the goal...
...Another Ivy Leaguer, Professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School, knew that he was taking a chance by giving his book such a controversial title. But his gamble has paid off, says PW. There are over 70,000 copies of "Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word" (Pantheon) in print, and it has appeared on various best-seller lists, including the NYT nonfiction list at No. 8. The book is No. 18 on the extended 4/7 NYT nonfiction list...