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Gyorffy’s final collegiate competition will be on June 2 at the NCAA Outdoor Track Championships in Oregon. Although she has yet to win an NCAA Outdoor title in her career, Gyorffy is the heavy favorite this season. The next-best jump in the nation, from Jeana Bingham of BYU, is over a tenth of a meter lower than Gyorffy’s personal best...
...meets like Heps you can place high enough with a smaller number of people," Haggerty said. "But unlike other sports, when you're looking at your next-best person, you're probably going from 10 to zero points...
...celebrate Maewyn Succat, a.k.a. St. Patty, better than Boston. And besides just being gross, kissing John Harvard's toe doesn't quite carry the cache of kissing the Blarney Stone. Luckily (no pun intended), computer technology can help: start your St. Patrick's Day observance by exploring a next-best computer simulated Blarney-smooching experience at the Top O' the Morning Web site in the St. Patrick's Day Webring. It's hygenic and may bring good luck! http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Fields/2142/ StPat.html. FREE...
Carswell actually ran a better time in the preliminaries, when he came in fifth with a time of 13:51.96. The top four runners in each preliminary make the finals, as well as the four next-best times...
...that obviously won't happen, so coaching is the next-best thing. And as long as there are children who are playing for the fun of it, then sports like baseball have a future...