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...lose today, the pennant race continues tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. when Army's Craig Jones, who believe it or not is even better than Myers, will face Harvard in the first...
...crashing close when he stole second with nobody out in the third inning and Brandies leading 4-3. Somewhere between the start of his slide and second base, his hand got caught underneath his body and something had to give. What gave may cost Harvard the EIBL pennant...
Will Atlanta still be in the pennant race...
Kentucky has been in 24 NCAA tournaments; UCLA in 20, and both will no doubt bus fans to regional sites and beyond. But to one small, all-black southern school, the NCAA tournament means more than pennant-waving and selling a few commemorative T-shirts. It has become a unifying force in a polarized state, a focal point for the emotion and loyalty of two and a half million people...
...Thurber wrote in one of his most celebrated diversions. "But . . . you could look it up." Thurber was writing about baseball, specifically, about a game in which a sawed-off number named Pearl du Monville - all 35 inches of him - rallies a flagging team and pushes them on toward the pennant. There are many sources to check sports stats, but for the even woollier recreation of rock 'n' roll, the research pickings have been slim. The Rolling Stone Record Guide (Random House/Rolling Stone Press; $19.95 hard cover, $8.95 in paper) is a lively start to ward righting this situation...