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Those forests that don't succumb to fire die in other, slower ways. Connie Millar, a paleoecologist for the U.S. Forest Service, studies the history of vegetation in the Sierra Nevada. Over the past 100 years, she has found, the forests have shifted their tree lines as much as 100 ft. upslope, trying to escape the heat and drought of the lowlands. Such slow-motion evacuation may seem like a sensible strategy, but when you're on a mountain, you can go only so far before you run out of room. "Sometimes we say the trees are going to heaven...
...been making a whistle-stop tour of one New England burgh after another, the team that you conjure consists of a Foulke who is a lights-out closer, not a DL?ed basket case; a Schilling who is a bloody-socked titan, not a 250-pound question mark; a Millar with home runs in the double digits; a bullpen that can hold a lead and a starting five with two aces. Clement has been a nice surprise, Wells has had his moments as has Arroyo, Wakefield?s been characteristically gutsy and Miller has shown that, when he regains full strength...
...Then again, our boy Millar has four homers. Renteria hasn?t looked like much in the clutch. Schilling? That wildcard spot doesn?t appear to be as readily available as it has been in recent years. Baltimore may linger, and the Blue Jays have improved. Halladay?s the very definition of lights...
Boston has a group of self-proclaimed “idiots” like Johnny Damon and Kevin Millar. The Yankees, on the other hand, have idiots in the literal sense of the word, guys like the immature Brown, who broke his hand punching a wall this September, and the overpaid A-Rod, who picked a fight with Jason Varitek on July 24 that ignited the long-dormant Red Sox to a sizzling second half of the season...
...good news for Sox fans is that core "idiots" like Johnny Damon and Kevin Millar will be back. And as the rival Yankees try to avenge this year's loss, they may find it hard to snap up the usual big names. The Yankees are saddled with multiyear, multimillion-dollar deals for pitchers Kevin Brown and Javier Vazquez, two goats of the final league-championship game, and for first baseman Jason Giambi, who is a shell of what he once was. Of course, the Yankees' deep-pocketed owner, George Steinbrenner, can budget through those problems. And Houston's Carlos Beltran...