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...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...
...never has Akpan received as much attention as now. Kicking off one outstanding two-week stretch in January, Akpan joined 17-year-old phenom Freddy Adu and a roster full of international veterans in making the final cut of the United States Under-20 Men’s National Team—which was itself a surprise until Akpan outran everyone in the 40-yard dash (his time: 4.60 seconds...