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...replace cycling's legend? Perhaps by starting with something life threatening. During last year's Tour de Georgia in Rome, Ga., Craig Lewis, a 20-year-old cycling phenom, was speeding downhill at 40 m.p.h. when a 65-year-old man accidentally drove a Mitsubishi Montero into his path. Head down, Lewis arrowed into the car. Later, a minister waited outside Lewis' hospital room ready to administer last rites, but the young rider regained consciousness. He asked for a pen, scribbled something on a bloodstained piece of paper and handed it to his coach. "Ride?" the note said. Two months...
Griffin, who dominated the sibling athletic rivalry throughout their childhood, watched as his brother transformed into an international phenom. He watched, first as a member of the second freshman boat, then the third varsity boat, and eventually the second varsity boat as a junior...
...Shawn Haviland, the freshman phenom whose snap-curveball already belonged somewhere beyond the Ivy League, victory always came easy—at least, when his hard breaking stuff had the good sense to find the strike zone...
Harvard’s cadre of honorable mentions, meanwhile, is three-fourths composed of the three pitchers in its short starting rotation. Freshman phenom Shawn Haviland (6-1, 3.18), Herrmann (4-1, 3.40), and senior Mike Morgalis (5-0, 3.52) captained a pitching staff with the second-best ERA in the Ivy League, compiling just two losses among them...
After playing third base for seven innings in the second game of a double-header against Cornell, the slugging freshman phenom entered a chain-link pen surrounded by Harvard fans to prepare for a potential slide from the hot corner to the pitching mound. And whether sitting or standing, an entire audience stopped to see exactly how hard the much-heralded green-horn could bring...