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...some cases, those injuries can lead to crippling arthritis or require extensive surgery to repair. It's no longer unheard of, to name just one example, for a 10-year-old baseball pitcher to need a tendon transplant for an ailing elbow--an operation that used to be restricted almost entirely to major league baseball players. And orthopedic surgeons report they are under increasing pressure to offer ever more experimental surgery for younger athletes...
...that's a tougher goal than it seems. Just look at the set of new pitching rules that Little League is putting into effect for the 2007 season. After decades of trying to prevent injuries by limiting pitchers to six innings a game--which could result in anywhere from 54 to more than 100 pitches per outing--Little League officials will focus instead on the total number of pitches per game, depending on the pitcher's age. Pitchers 10 and younger will stop after 75 pitches, and those 11 to 12 years of age are limited to 85 pitches...
...pilot testing by the Little League organization showed that a lower limit would mean changing pitchers more often during the game than coaches and players really wanted. So the investigators looked at their data again and decided that 85 pitches was still within the safety zone--and just as important, made it more likely that a pitcher could complete an entire game...
...shift in power between the sexes has nowhere been greater than in romantic comedies. The men are about as useful as a pitcher of spit, while the women have careers and well-furnished apartments and vast freighters of wisdom. In Julianne Moore's next movie, Trust the Man, she plays a successful actress, while her husband has no remunerative employment. How does her real-life husband feel about being portrayed that way? You can ask him. He wrote the movie...
...detective agency by day. The case that drives this Southern-fried page-turner revolves around a dying cotton dynasty, an OxyContin-popping former football star and tapes of a late-night blues session that have been missing for 50 years. Fitzhugh's dialogue is as cool as a pitcher of iced tea, and his characters are just over the top, like a Carl Hiaasen cast plucked from the Everglades and planted, as Dylan would put it, out on Highway...