Word: phenomal
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...entered this year’s ISA Individual Championship as the tournament’s top seed and early favorite. After a pair of three-game wins in the opening two rounds, Grigg was extended to four games in the quarters and the semifinals before eventually defeating Penn freshman phenom Kristen Lange in the championship match to claim the national title. “It was amazing.” Grigg said. “It was the perfect way to go out.” —Staff writer Douglas A. Baerlein can be reached at baerlein@fas.harvard.edu...
...scorching line drive off the bat of Big Green center fielder Damon Wright. The Crimson coaches came out to check on Unger, but he appeared all right and stayed in the game. From that point on, though, Unger was never able to find his groove.Dartmouth freshman phenom Nick Santomauro came up next and hit a double to right field past a diving Tom Stack-Babich, moving Wright to third.Big Green third baseman Raymond Allen followed with a two-run single. Harvard had a chance to kill the Dartmouth rally on the next play, when Andrew Nacario grounded to Crimson junior...
...average age of 22. In addition to Pressel and grand dame Annika Sorenstam, today's talent includes a 21-year-old blond, blue-eyed beauty who just won her second major (Brittany Lincicome); a young Mexican (Lorena Ochoa) on the verge of dethroning longtime No. 1 Sorenstam; a teen phenom, now 20, with a penchant for pink (Paula Creamer); a Japanese rock star trailed by a swarm of photographers (Ai Miyazato); and a swimsuit-calendar model with her own reality-TV show (Natalie Gulbis). "My decision to leave college and turn pro was one of the best decisions...
...basketball team. The Trojans recently received a commitment from teen-rap sensation Romeo (he dropped the Lil’ over a year ago), meaning that the son of hip-hop mogul Master P will be teamed up with the nation’s top incoming freshman—prep phenom O.J. Mayo—come the 2007-08 season...
...company's next big sponsorship push. Two of them, the NFL and the NBA, were in sports where Nike was well established, but the other three represented worlds where Nike was all but unknown: the Brazilian soccer team, the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team and a teenage golfing phenom named Tiger Woods. Wall Street was waiting to see what Nike would do to follow up Michael Jordan and the enormously successful Air Jordan line of footwear. When the company announced that it had signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar deal with Woods, the reaction was swift--Nike stock fell...