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...Orioles' Cal Ripken has been on the disabled list for 5,760 minutes...
DIED. CAL RIPKEN SR., 63, sharp-tongued veteran baseball manager and the only coach to have managed two of his sons, Cal Jr. and Billy, on the same team; of lung cancer; in Aberdeen, Md. Ripken spent 36 years with the Baltimore Orioles in both the minor and major leagues. "There are two things I always say you have to do in baseball," he said. "Adjust and readjust...
...RIPKEN JR. Ripken ended his record 2,632-consecutive-game streak quietly, sitting out a game unannounced at the end of the season, when SportsCenter was tuned to McGwire, Sosa and the Yanks. Ripken was healthy, but knew it was time to give someone else a chance to play. Before he started The Streak, the Dow Jones was 819.54. Worry...
...turning pro straight out of high school, scoring a luxurious home in San Diego and becoming no-worries wealthy through the sport he loves. He has appeared in commercials for Mountain Dew, Gap, AT&T, Gatorade and milk, taking his place beside the white-mustached Pete Sampras and Cal Ripken Jr. But Tony Hawk isn't a tennis or baseball player. He's a professional skateboarder who spends his time in swimming pools. Empty swimming pools. Preferably lefthanded, kidney-shaped pools with lips of grindable concrete coping, perfect for landing nollie backside 180s, pulling fakie 540 kick-flip indies...
...just tell Timmy that baseball, for once, showed people how to live. While America's leaders disgusted them and the economy frightened them, they got a wholesome epic. McGwire and Sosa congenially ribbed each other into amassing 136 home runs while Cal Ripken ended his fantastically mundane consecutive game streak by silently slipping away because it was time to let someone new have a turn. And the Yankees played hard, worked together and won a lot of ball games. We got everything we wished We hope, when you tell this story, America won't need baseball as badly...