Word: pittsburgh
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...TELEVISION Real Madrid CF vs. Internacionale FC, ESPN2, 2:30 p.m. Red Sox at Orioles, NESN, 7 p.m. Anaheim at Texas, ESPN, 8 p.m. Pittsburgh at St. Louis, ESPN2, 8 p.m. Chi. Cubs at S.D., ESPN, 10:30 p.m. S.F. at Arizona, ESPN2...
...ethical asterisk next to his achievement. Andro is legal in baseball--partly because the mouse men who run the game are unwilling to wrestle over drug policy with a balky and powerful players' union--but banned in other sports; last week the NFL suspended Paul Wiggins of the Pittsburgh Steelers for sampling andro over the summer. (Sosa was recently seen "hiding" a bottle of Flintstones vitamins in his locker.) But how much extra fizz does the 6-ft. 5-in., 250-lb. McGwire need? He's always been a hefty guy, a goateed Gigantor, and his 49 homers...
WELLites, who are among the crankiest people I've ever not met, are especially critical of the methodology, which was limited to 169 newbies living in Pittsburgh. The WELL snobs want to know if maybe there isn't a deeper correlation between living in Pittsburgh and depression. Jeers abound. Some wag posts something he found elsewhere online: a list of the Top 10 Reasons Why the Internet Makes You Depressed. "Reason No. 1: She was *really* a 14-year-old boy from Sheboygan, Wisconsin!" Ha ha--way to steal someone else's idea and get credit...
...courage and phone Donna Hoffman, a professor at Vanderbilt University who has conducted more studies of online usage than anyone else I know. "Color me baffled," she says. Hoffman believes the report is critically flawed. For starters, there was no control group--composed of, say, people outside Pittsburgh. Teenagers were the largest group in the sample, and we all know about their mental health. Even the researchers admitted that their results could not be "generalized," meaning you can't extrapolate to the whole population...
...Number of times Sosa has been retired this year by Shane Reynolds of the Houston Astros, Pedro Astacio of the Colorado Rockies and Francisco Cordova of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the pitchers who have retired him most often without surrendering a homer...