Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: Rob Alevizos, last year's star hurler who moved on to a short but distinguished career in the Chicago Cubs organization last summer, was on hand to watch his old mates. "I miss it like anything." Alevizos said of throwing his legendary sailing fastball, "but I'm learning the real-estate business now." Despite a 4-1 record with the Cubs' Geneva outlet in the single-A New york-Pennsylvania League and the promise of a raise. 'Zos decided to hand up the cleats because he "saw the extent" of his abilities. Good luck and see you around...
Brown didn't miss his heat. After allowing back-to-back first-inning singles, the fireballer tamed the Tigers with an clusive slider and sailing hard stuff that made up in movement for what it lacked in velocity. Mark Lockenmeyer's fourth-inning infield chopper was Princeton's only other safety...
Maybe so, but some libel experts are uneasy. Taken together with the $14 million award (reduced from $26 million last week) against Penthouse magazine for libeling Kimerli Pring, a former Miss Wyoming, the Enquirer verdict might signal a trend in multimillion-dollar verdicts that could put publications out of business, a prospect that would unquestionably inhibit journalists. Says First Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams: "The fact that such a large judgment has been returned in such a highly publicized case may well be an inducement to more plaintiffs to bring more lawsuits seeking more money." As for the Enquirer, it vows...
...Last year not one kid missed any games because of an injury," Scalise says. No players injured seriously enough to miss games through last season's 14-game schedule. And four players felled in four games so far this year. It's hard to overlook such a disparity...
...intelligence of a "flatworm" would think the disputed article was nonfiction, Spence, a University of Wyoming law graduate, began to refer to himself and fellow state residents as mere flatworms. He also listed 15 similarities between Pring and the protagonist of the article, which described how a baton-twirling Miss Wyoming used her sexual prowess to try to win the Miss America Pageant...