Word: nicked
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...Quakers are a team on the rise. All eight starting position players return from a 2002 squad that finished second in the Lou Gehrig division with an 11-9 record. Led by All-Ivy seniors Andrew McCreery and Nick Italiano, hitting will be Penn’s strength. McCreery—who batted an Ivy-best .419 in league competition last season—may be the league’s best pure hitter and was named the Great Lakes League MVP this summer. Meanwhile, Italiano is on the verge of becoming Penn’s career hits leader...
...each of the past three years, a handful of “northern” (meaning everything above the Carolinas) college pitchers were selected in the draft’s first round. Over that same stretch, exactly one northern college position player—former Ohio State first baseman Nick Swisher (No. 16 overall in 2002)—was a first rounder...
...Across the board, our main focus was for all the boats to just grind away—[there was] no set race plan,” captain Nick Blannin said...
LAWLESS HEART. Friends and family converge on a small town in northern England for a funeral in Lawless Heart. Stuart, the deceased, was a young gay man who leaves behind a healthy bank account and successful restaurant when he drowns off the Isle of Man. Nick, his partner, and Dan, his brother-in-law, immediately begin competing over the restaurant. Both are sidetracked by unexpected relationships: Nick with his first woman, and Dan with an inappropriately frisky female guest at Stuart’s funeral. The film’s structure is initially somewhat confusing-it revisits the funeral...
...don’t really have any way to judge the speed of other crews right now relative to ourselves,” said lightweight captain Nick Blannin. “We certainly have a much deeper team this year. We’ve really got some high expectations for ourselves on all levels...