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...with most of the players that were on the Ivy championship team last spring. Have no doubt about it, those players are ready to defend their title.“We want to repeat this year,” captain Shelly Madick said. Madick, the 2007 Ivy Pitcher of the Year, will headline the pitching rotation for the Crimson. In a 2007 season that was filled with memorable performances, Madick turned in perhaps her best outing in the first game of the Ivy Championship Series where she threw a no-hitter against Penn. To top it off, Madick returned...
There are other problems as well. Tommy John ligament surgery, an elbow procedure named after the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher who was the first to undergo it, used to be limited to players in their 20s and older, but it is now performed on kids as young as 12--not surprising if they started pitching excessively at age 8 or 9. Similarly, stress fractures in the backs of middle-school football and soccer players have nearly doubled over the past decade as a result of overtraining...
Chicago has its lovable losers the Cubs. Brooklyn, in the 1950s, had its Dodgers. The team reached the World Series five times from 1941 to '53 but always lost to the Yankees, hence their slogan: Wait 'til next year. That changed in 1955, when pitcher Johnny Podres, an unknown on a team that included Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese, took Brooklyn to its first and only World Series win. By holding off the Yankees with his fastball and signature change-up, Podres earned the nickname "Mr. Clutch" and won the first ever World Series Most Valuable Player...
...basically pits Clemens against McNamee, his ex-friend and personal trainer. Clemens has angrily denied ever using performance-enhancing drugs, while McNamee told Mitchell that he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone on at least 16 occasions from 1998 to 2001. Clemens, regarded as perhaps the greatest pitcher of all time, has unleashed a high-profile assault to clear his name - a 60 Minutes interview, a seething press conference, even a defamation suit against McNamee. But to this point, the trainer has stuck by his story. So Congress is mediating a classic he said/she said dispute among...
...lied to Mitchell, in no way does it disprove, or even really damage, the rest of the report. After all, McNamee contributed just three names to the document: Pettitte, who has already confirmed the accusations against him; Clemens; and Knoblauch, who has stayed quiet (both McNamee and Radomski named pitcher Jason Grimsley, who has admitted to using steroids, and David Justice, who denied it). And McNamee's battle with Clemens has absolutely no bearing on the dozens of players whom Radomski named. If McNamee lied about Clemens, sure, it's a hole in the report. But it's a minor...