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Pete Sampras played a U.S. Open tennis match while vomiting. Willis Reed limped to an NBA championship on a withered ankle. By comparison, TIGER WOODS, whose sport requires leisurely walking and the occasional poke at an inanimate ball, just had a little knee ouchy. But with a horde of cameras following him, Woods' triumph over minor injury was quickly elevated to the stuff of Olympic tearjerkers. Leaving the 18th green at Pebble Beach, Calif., after practice last Wednesday, Woods accidentally stepped on the ankle of a voracious autograph seeker, spraining his left knee. With the eager fan screaming...
...quickly become Harvard's specialty teams whiz this season, poke-checked the puck into the neutral zone off the faceoff in his own zone. Moore skirted a Colgate defenseman and wheeled down the ice to come in alone on goaltender David Cann. Cann stopped the initial backhander, but Moore batted home his own rebound to put the Crimson...
...offense chances, but they couldn't crack Jonas. Chris Corrinet gave Princeton its best chance to knot the game at four with a breakaway at 18:49, but he mishandled the puck at the crease and lost the shot. "They play scrappy, that's their style," Jonas said. "I poke-checked him and I guess he lost the puck in that play." Although the Crimson had great puck possession and controlled most of the play in the opening stanza, fans at the sold-out Hobey Baker Rink witnessed an uncharacteristically out-of-sync Harvard squad. The Crimson suffered early difficulties...
...sleepy sensuality of the young Robert Mitchum--a narcoleptic dreamboat quality that suggests a sleek predator roused from slumber by a poke through his cage. So when Benicio Del Toro got a call around noon Los Angeles time a few weeks ago to be told that he'd won the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Supporting Actor prize for his performance as a Mexican narc in Traffic, the 33-year-old emitted something like a growl. The new lion of Hollywood is a late sleeper and, he says, "I'm not a happy camper when I get woken...
...Issued ergonomic standards to protect workers, a poke at Bush's Big Business benefactors...