Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been at the helm of the option for a matter of days, McDowell looked remarkably comfortable making quick decisions at the corner of the defense. Running the option at least once in almost every possession, McDowell made a costly mistake only once: a bad pitch to freshman running back promptly fell on for a loss of seven yards...
Gumbel seems like a fun boss (Hey, there's a plastic humanoid M&M behind his desk). He tosses a paper ball in the air as his producers pitch story suggestions, and even digresses from the matters at hand to suggest a movie rental (the Belgian crime drama Man Bites Dog). But he displays no loosey-gooseyness about what he wants. He quickly rejects stories that sound even remotely as if they could spring from the mouth of Steve Dunleavy. During the past months, he has told the world in almost mantra-like fashion that he doesn't want...
Jeff Bagwell can tell you all about being hit by a pitch. He had a bone in his left hand broken three years in a row. That hasn't stopped him from crowding the plate in that squatty stance and sending balls into orbit that the Johnson Space Center ends up tracking. Of course, baseball isn't as exciting as figuring out what's going to explode next...
Will the construction and renovation ever end? Not until donors stop giving in to the University's sales pitch and realize that their millions could be better spent preserving the rain forests, funding salaries of inner-city teachers or alleviating food and housing shortages here in America and world-wide...
...especially, since Nick was a teenager in the Bronx and a desperate Dodgers fan when the home run was hit? "It's not about Thomson hitting the homer," an embarrassed Nick explains to some colleagues who have learned of his possession. "It's about Branca making the pitch. It's all about losing...