Word: playoff
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...heard how DeLillo got the inspiration for the novel. Intrigued by the hubbub back in 1991 surrounding the 40th anniversary of Ralph Branca's fateful pitch and Bobby Thomson's subsequent home run--the so-called shot heard 'round the world that gave the New York Giants a playoff victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers and the National League championship--DeLillo went to the library and looked up on microfilm the front page of the New York Times for Oct. 4, 1951, the day after the game. He discovered something that produced what he now calls "a hush in my mind...
Fall, and a young man's thoughts turn to ... the Division Series? Baseball begins its month-long playoff tomorrow, and while we may mourn the passing of the days when the first-place team from the American met the champion of the National in one simple Fall Classic, we also know that today baseball's marketing-gone-amok will first make us sit through weeks of lesser contests. Case in point: Atlanta, the team with the Big Leagues' best record, takes on a Houston Astros club that barely won more than it lost. Where's Judge Landis when you need...
...Major League playoff match-ups are nearly set (CNNSI...
...charges allege that among items Espy accepted were football playoff tickets, plane trips and limousine rides from Tyson Foods; luggage and U.S. Open tennis tickets from Sun-Diamond Growers; and tickets to an N.B.A. championship game. In all, Smaltz values the freebies at $35,458. As the transgressions came to light, the indictment claims, Espy scrambled to conceal them or to make belated reimbursement. He may be most vulnerable to the charge that he had a clerk alter an itinerary for a January 1994 Dallas Cowboys football game to delete references to Tyson before giving the document to investigators. Smaltz...
...then there's the cover-up. After traveling to Dallas to take in a Cowboys playoff game with his girlfriend (courtesy of poultry giant Tyson Foods), Espy allegedly ordered a USDA employee to delete references to Tyson Foods, his girlfriend, and the game when his travel itinerary for that day was requested by the USDA's inspector general. Espy could get ten years for that tap-dance alone. At a press conference today, the tenacious Smaltz said he's not done yet. He may want to quit while he's ahead...