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...even smell the greenery of the Bears' pitching staff. Seven new pitchers take the mound this year, led by freshman Jamie Grillo. Grillo, who is 32 with an ERA of 4.17, won Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors this week after he pitched his way to two impressive victories...
...Harvard has a hurler of its own who might not want to relinquish her team's status as the best of the Ancient Eight. Sophomore Chelsea Thoke (9-9) has been a workhorse on the mound for the Crimson all season long and earned Ivy League Pitcher of the Week honors two weeks ago for her dominant weekend against Yale and Brown...
Senior righthander Donny Jamieson had just made his only serious jam of the afternoon a lot less sticky, starting a rare bases-loaded, 1-2-3 double play in the fifth by cleanly fielding Mike Kahney's come-backer to the mound and firing home for the lead runner. Senior catcher Jason Keck then turned and gunned Kahney out at first to preserve a 4-4 tie and leave runners at second and third with two outs...
...Huling lined a ball off the pitcher's mound, and when the rebound ricocheted into short center field, he dug hard around first and motored for second while the Bulldog outfield looked at the ball like an arrival from another planet. He arrived in a cloud of dust, well ahead of the dilatory throw...
...meme began, in The Selfish Gene in 1976, the message was a negative one: genes aren't the only pebbles on the Darwinian beach. In 1998, in Unweaving the Rainbow, I could be more positive: "There is an ecology of memes, a tropical rainforest of memes, a termite mound of memes. Memes don't only leap from mind to mind by imitation, in culture. That is just the easily visible tip of the iceberg. They also thrive, multiply and compete within our minds. When we announce to the world a good idea, who knows what subconscious quasi-Darwinian selection...