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...hero of World Series Game 3 in St. Louis was Veteran Second Baseman Frank White, Kansas City's most thoroughly homegrown player, who moved up to fourth in the batting order for the American Leaguers' odd year of nine-man baseball, when "Hired Hitter" Hal McRae became a designated sitter. A graduate of the defunct Kansas City Royals Baseball Academy, White was raised in the shadow of the old ballpark at Second and Brooklyn, but not to be a cleanup hitter. "When I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as the next guy," he said after smashing...
Clogging the line of scrimmage with eight- and nine-man fronts, Cornell held Dawson below 100 yards rushing for the first time in 10 games on Oct. 9, prompting Harvard to expand its offensive repertoire to include more passing plays designed specifically for the running back...
...Crimson, the league’s reigning tournament champions and recipients of three consecutive NCAA bids, were ranked fourth by both coaches and the media, reflecting an expected drop off in the team’s performance following the graduation of the nine-man class of 2004. The two votes did not dovetail perfectly, though, with the coaches selecting Cornell as the team to beat and Dartmouth staking out the top spot in the media poll...
...booby-trapped artillery shell detonated shortly before midnight. In the roar and smoke, bodies ripped apart. Suddenly the nine-man foot patrol from Task Force 1/9, composed of infantrymen and cavalry troopers, was down to five, alone, in a darkened Baghdad alley and cut off from help. One soldier was dead. Three others lay bleeding but still alive as fire from AK-47s rained down on the scrambling troopers. Company commander Captain Thomas Foley hollered orders above the din, desperately trying to stave off the attack while getting some kind of aid to his wounded men. One had lost...
Schires led Harvard the drive as he completed passes of 16 and 22 yards to get the Crimson moving. Dawson, who was now facing eight- and nine-man fronts from Lafayette, carried the ball five times during the drive and scored his third touchdown of the day with a three-yard run off the left tackle. After Kingston missed the extra point wide right—his third missed kick of the day—Harvard had a 27-20 lead...