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...Hotels and travel agents in Hua Hin and nearby Pranburi arrange tours to the park, and local operators offer kayak rental and boat trips. The park station is a good place to start an outing. A rugged trail climbs up craggy Khao Daeng hill to a lofty lookout. It's only half a kilometer, but nearly vertical the entire way. What a view, though: glittering shrimp ponds and lush, green fields skirt conical peaks all the way to the coast. The total seems fewer than 300, but as Khao Sam Roi Yot is such a pleasant break from Bangkok...
...sharing a love for the game and spending some time with his brother Larry, 61, an Evansville, Ind., lawyer. The brothers used to take their father on a trip every year for his birthday. After their father died two years ago, the two discussed doing some kind of annual outing as a way to remain close. When Jerry gave his brother a book listing every baseball stadium in the country, an idea was born. "Our goal is to go to every major league baseball stadium in the country, a few at a time each summer," Jerry says...
...most excruciating example of an needlessly elaborate game strategy came in Argentina's final outing, against Sweden. With the Swedes reluctant to leave their own half, the South American champs were easily able to feed the ball to Pablo Aimar and Ariel Ortega, who were in turn meant to create scoring opportunities for Gabriel Batistuta. Both of these diminutive players have had the misfortune of being tagged "the new Maradona." Perhaps the heavy burden of that label compelled them to show off their dazzling skills every time they received the ball, weaving one way, then the other, deceiving a couple...
Nyweide, who had endured a particularly rough outing the previous weekend against Dartmouth, turned in a three-hit shutout in the opener. In the second game, Sheffield—who had been a JV player, a midweek pitcher, a member of the right field platoon and finally a weekend starter—could call himself the winning pitcher in the series clincher...
...Rice University in the NCAA Regionals. He pitched in the Crimson’s 4-2 loss to Washington on Saturday. Crockett performed well, striking out nine batters in nine innings, but a four-run rally that started with two outs in the fourth spoiled his otherwise solid outing...