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...started. I know it’s a lot of pressure but I’m ready for anything Coach Walsh expects out of me and whenever he needs me, I’ll be ready.” Rounding out the rotation will likely be a mix of old and new faces. Senior Javier Castellanos has been dialing up the radar gun in camp—as rumor has it, all the way to 94 mph—and ambidextrous classmate Matt Brunnig has shown flashes of brilliance in the past. Since the pitching situation so unsettled, this season...
...Mixing experience with youth will be key for the pitching staff this spring. Last season the team finished with a 3.75 ERA, just ten complete games to its opponents’ 26, and teams hit for a .281 average against the young staff. Many of the squad’s woes came as a result of injuries, an issue that led to two freshman starting 23 out of the team’s 38 games. “What’s good for us this year is that we have two sophomores that did a lot of starting last...
...trendy boutiques and cute little streets. Then have dinner at La Maison Blanche (15 Avenue Montaigne): it's got a chic atmosphere and a fabulous view. Afterward, pop over to the Hotel Plaza Ath?n?e down the street (25 Avenue Montaigne, pictured) for a drink?its decor is an attractive mix of modern glass and traditional woodwork...
...DIED. OCTAVIA BUTLER, 58, novelist who was the first black woman to achieve major success in the white-male-dominated genre of science-fiction; of head injuries from a fall; in Seattle, Washington. A loner and self-described "oil-and-water" mix of "ambition, laziness, insecurity [and] certainty," Butler subverted sci-fi stereotypes to tackle issues like racism and poverty in books like Kindred, the tale of a black woman who time-travels back to the antebellum South. In 1995, she became the only sci-fi writer ever to receive a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant...
...Traditionalists may still moan that cricket and cash mix about as well as crumpets and curry. But the game began its commercial revolution three decades ago when Australian media magnate Kerry Packer, who died last December, broke away from the sports establishment and signed 50 top players to his World Series Cricket. Packer's venture was short-lived, but his innovations?white balls, colored team strips, floodlights and high player salaries?stuck. Today, a second commercial upheaval is evident in the number of companies vying for a slice of cricket's growth on the subcontinent. Nimbus...