Word: postseason
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...field, Rice, like Ripken, has been a model of consistency--not missing a non-strike game over his 11-year career. That's 164 regular-season games (plus 18 postseason games) straight on the gridiron. That's Ripkenesque...
...still make a noise? That philosophical question is being posed as the regular season dwindles toward its conclusion next Sunday. Thanks to the introduction of the sacrilege known as the wild card--the best second-place team in each league will join the three division winners in the postseason--clubs that would ordinarily be playing out the string are still scrambling for that last coveted, though maligned, seat. "We'll take it any way we can get it," says New York Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly, who can taste his first October in 13 seasons. "Purists may not like...
...game is still reeling from the strike that canceled last year's World Series, but it somehow lucked into a fascinating cast for postseason play. The American League will have the Boston Red Sox, who haven't won a world championship since 1918; the joke turned juggernaut Cleveland Indians; the Seattle Mariners and/or the California Angels, both of whom are strangers to the World Series; and perhaps the Yankees. The National League will have the pleasure of the company of pitcher Greg Maddux and the Atlanta Braves; the return of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine; and a choice...
Alabama officials turned crimson Wednesday when the NCAA placed the school's storied football program on probation for three years. The most serious charge: the school provided "false and misleading information" about a player who was declared ineligible after signing with an agent. Among the penalties: a ban on postseason play for the coming year...
...They should have than expectation," Allard said. "They should want to go to postseason [next year...