Word: player
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...doubt one of the best players in the nation," Anderson said. "There's usually one player on every team that dominates the offense. It's nice to have someone who can neutralize anybody, all the time...
Maybe "overachievers" is not the right word, but this year's Harvard team won the ECAC regular-season title with no dominant scorer. It placed only one player, defenseman Don Sweeney, on the All-ECAC Team...
Performing on a mix of originals and reproductions, Norrington's 80-player ensemble is made up of London free-lancers, many of whom also play in similar bands like the Academy of Ancient Music and the English Concert. In rehearsal, he leads his players with forceful gestures, cries of encouragement and vivid, running pictorial images that mirror the music's story. "It was only a passing shower," he tells the strings in the Fantastique's adagio. "Now you might live again . . . supposing she is with somebody else . . . you're exhausted . . . what Berlioz says about this part is that the drums...
...defeat the Cuban national team on its own turf. Now Jim Abbott, 20, who plays for the University of Michigan, has scored another first. Last week Abbott, who was born without a right hand, received the Sullivan Award as outstanding amateur athlete of the year, the only baseball player ever to be so honored in the prize's 58-year history. "They picked the worst athlete up here," said Abbott as he accepted his trophy. "Baseball players usually don't get that much respect." This one deserves...
...York Congressman Jack Kemp, who hinted last week that he would like the offer, is considered too outspoken to be a good team player. Kemp was described by a Bush adviser as "temperamentally unsuited" for the role of Vice President...