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Many of those saves were at point-blank range, as the Eagles penetrated the Crimson goal box with relative ease at times...
Midfielder Kristen Fowler did a nice job of plugging up the middle. Fullback Francie Walton was a corner-monster, deflecting several point-blank shots. And goalie Lisa Yadao came through with flying pads to thwart a semi-breakaway...
Otherwise, nothing happened. During the daylight hours Tuesday, Ruslan Khasbulatov, first deputy chairman of the supreme soviet of the Russian Federation and a close Yeltsin adviser, was on the phone to KGB chief Kryuchkov and Defense Minister Yazov. He asked them point-blank if the junta planned to storm the White House. "Yazov did not deny it," he reported. Late Tuesday night and again Wednesday morning, Gennadi Burbulis, another Yeltsin aide, spoke twice more with Kryuchkov. Finally Kryuchkov promised, "You can sleep soundly." There would be no shoot...
...slaughter, not sport, with no vestige of a fair contest between man and beast. In pursuit of a trophy to hang on the wall or a videotape of their exploits, well-to-do hunters in the U.S. are paying thousands of dollars to shoot defenseless exotic animals at point-blank range. There is no accurate count of the number of such killings, but authorities are finally beginning to crack down on them...
...first was a diving block of a shot followed by another dive to save a rebound attempt. The second was a stuff off of a point-blank shot fired by Parish, who shook her head in disbelief as she watched the ball ricochet back onto the playing field. Even Andy Moog would have been impressed...