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More than 1 million troops stand toe-to-toe along the 1,800-mile India-Pakistan border, with both sides saying they will fight, if necessary. It would not take much to light this tinderbox. Experts believe another terrorist attack by Kashmiri separatists could lead India to retaliate against rebel training camps in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Indian analysts fear that Pakistan almost surely would respond in kind, perhaps diverting Indian forces with strikes along the Pakistan-India border to the south. From there the battle could conceivably escalate to a nuclear conflict, with devastating consequences: a U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency...
Controlled fury will be the key to Belmont, at a mile and a half the longest of the Triple Crown races by an eighth of a mile. Once again the speed horses such as Sunday Break and Perfect Drift will be gunning for War Emblem, hoping to grind him down. Bring it on, says Baffert. "Nothing that goes with him up front will be around...
This year, the regatta, set for Saturday on the Thames River in New London, Conn., marks the 150th anniversary of intercollegiate athletics. Both crews prepare extensively for the marathon of a race, as the varsity boats compete on a four-mile course, instead of the standard 2,000 meters, while the junior varsity rows three miles and the freshman boat races for two miles...
Sophomore Alasdair McLean-Foreman, Harvard’s top finisher at Cross Country Regionals with his 13th-place showing, also took second in the mile at Indoor Heps and third at IC4As but was too injured to compete for most of the outdoor season...
Crockett, who throws a 92 mile-per-hour fastball and a nasty, biting curveball, had been tabbed as a major league prospect ever since he earned Pitcher of the Year honors in the prestigious Cape Cod League in 2000. Throughout his junior and senior seasons, his starts attracted crowds of pro scouts armed with radar guns...