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...take you back to October 16, 2003. Last fall, I was perched high in the upper deck above home plate, one of 56,279 in attendance at Yankee Stadium to watch the Red Sox take on the Bronx Bombers in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series. My younger brother and I sat there in the eighth inning amidst a sea of mortal enemies and started going nuts as Sox slugger David Ortiz launched a home run into the Bronx night to put the Sox up 5-2 with two innings left. It was one of the greatest moments?...
...some kind of a parallel universe, both games mirrored each other; David Ortiz just missed a home run to end it in the ninth inning as Mickelson just missed a number of birdie opportunities early in the round. Then in the bottom of the 12th, Ortiz stepped to the plate and crushed one over the Wall in left field and into the new Green Monster seats. Just a few minutes later, I flipped back to CBS to see Mickelson follow suit by making an improbable birdie putt on the 18th green to claim that elusive Green Jacket...
...Filipinos tend to have unusually large extended families, but Pacquiao's posse has expanded of late, seemingly at the same rate as his fight purses, which hit $700,000 for the battle with Barrera. Members circle the fighter like planets around the sun, cooking his dinner, clearing away his plate, carrying his pool cue when he goes out for the marathon billiards matches that occupy many of his evenings. Manager Nazario remembers calling Pacquiao the morning after a party in his honor, not long after the fighter returned from the U.S. "He said, 'I thought I had 30 relatives,'" Nazario...
Freshman third baseman Virginia Fritsch, who has been one of Harvard’s most lethal offensive weapons this season, stepped to the plate. In her eighth at-bat of the game, she bludgeoned a single to right field, scoring the speedy Stefanchik and tying up the score. But with two outs, it looked like even more extra innings could be in the works...
Besides Finley, who is swinging at a .311 clip with four round-trippers and 18 RBI, and Snyder, who is hitting .305 with one dinger and nine RBI, the Tigers are led at the plate by senior left fielder Wendy Bingham who carries a .296 batting average out of the two-spot...