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...smash you against the sideboards of the arena, fling you off its back and gore you with its horns. On the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) tour, concussions and broken bones are as common as Wranglers and brass-buckled belts. "Most bull riders are what you call gristleheads," says Mike Lee, 23, who has won $2 million in five years of riding. "If you're intelligent, you wouldn't do it." Win the PBR World Championship, though, and the payoff is sweet: a $1 million check that can go a long way toward easing the saddle sores (or worse) that...
...Mike Madden (mike_madden@mac.com) covers government and politics for Gannett News Service...
...preseason camp. Dominic edged him out, but a lot of people would’ve thought that Brian would’ve edged Dominic out.”Yet the graduation of eight starters will lead to an inexperienced offense taking the field Saturday. At the tailback position, sophomores Mike Kielt and Terrance Gass had only one start between the two of them last season; Kielt saw time in nine games to Gass’s six.In the bigger picture, the outcome of tomorrow’s game will likely depend on the ability to capitalize on turnovers and create...
...Field when they scored three goals in a six-minute span late in the game to tie it at 3-3. All the cogs in the offense seem to be functioning almost at mid-season form as Harvard has scored 14 goals in just five games this season. Sophomore Mike Fucito leads the way with four, but for the most part, the scoring has been spread amongst a mix of seasoned veterans and a few rookies who are seeing consistent playing time. “I don’t think we are going to deviate from what has been...
...popular than ever. Chamillionaire is ridin’ the airwaves with his Houston swagger; Kanye West and Pharrell Williams, two producers-turned-rappers, have made hip hop accessible to a wider audience through their collaborations with rock and pop artists; and Jay-Z continues to rep Brooklyn on the mike, even though he supposedly retired three years...