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...still get goosebumps sitting in Fenway Park and hearing the crowd cheering for Curt Schilling as he goes to strike out the side against the Yankees. But it will never be the same as watching little Pedro Martinez out on the mound, feeding off the energy of the crowd that loved him so much, bringing together a city that had long been considered racist, and helping to raise the hands of Hispanics, blacks, Irish-Catholics and WASPs alike in cheering on a member of the Olde Towne Team...
He’s talking about hockey, not baseball. It may not be bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, but hockey broadcasting has given Wolff a way to stay involved with Harvard athletics when the only white line on O’Donnell Field is a mound of snow. As a member of the Harvard JV hockey team, Wolff’s found plenty do to do between early summer and opening...
Schilling, rising like a rebuilt pitching robot, walked to the Yankee Stadium mound for Game 6. He permitted just one run in seven innings, silencing New York studs like Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield and Hideki Matsui. It was a masterful job--and a heroic one, with TV cameras focused on the blood seeping through his sock. It was so gory, it might have been an episode of CSI: Curt Schilling's Incision. After the game, though, someone discarded Schilling's blood-red sock, potentially the most treasured relic since Veronica's veil. It could have netted a bundle...
...team chatters more than they would at a regular practice. That’s why everyone overthrows everything trying to show arm strength. That’s why everyone—even if you’re a little hurt—takes the mound...
...After a soft grounder to short clinched it, the Americans hurled their gloves and piled up at the pitchers mound. But the sport's officials might not join the celebration. Softball has an America problem - Team USA hasn't lost in a year, and since only four countries (Australia, Japan, this year's bronze medallist, and China) are true competitors, the International Olympics Committee has threatened to drop the sport, though it's safe for Beijing in 2008. U.S. players don't understand the concerns. "I can't imagine being good at something as a bad thing," says catcher Stacey...