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Moving from the court to the courtroom, MoVaughn, the power hitting Red Sox first baseman and active community leader, was acquitted last week of drunken driving, a charge brought when he crashed his pick-up truck into an abandoned car a foggy early morning in January. Vaughn was within his rights to refuse to take a breathalyzer test that night (planning wisely for the court appearance to follow), and, given the venue of his night out (a Rhode Island strip joint), he did well to apologize to his legions of fans in newspaper advertisements. Luckily, neither Vaughn nor anyone else...
...defense. All of a sudden everyone cares about winning. People need to play post defense to deal with those 6'8" ringers and things begin to look like real basketball. People have to set screens and work for good shots--during the regular season, the games often feel like pick-up games...
...announcement that I had 17 new messages. Never mind that the vast majority of these were from people harassing me to help them redesign biological weapons for their student organizations, or from people I hadn't talked to in months forwarding me lists of the top 10 Mensa pick-up lines. Damn it, I felt loved. But alas, all that has changed. Now, a giant sucking sound is apparently echoing across Harvard's servers as a growing segment of the e-mailing population gradually logs out. The ominous silence they leave in their wake can be explained in three letters...
According to Jim Halushka, the deputy prosecutor in charge of warrants and investigations in Oakland County. Fox slashed a man, Robert Thomas, across the face with a hockey stick. The incident, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, occurred during the championship game of a pick-up hockey league at the Detroit Skating Club in Bloomfield Township...
...great having brothers in the same sport that can compete with you and encourage you," Doug said. "There were always two people I could count on being willing and able to play against for fun, and for summer pick-up games, I knew that there would always be at least two other people that could skate out there...