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...this year, for the first time ever, things went exactly according to plan. It’s like that time on the SAT’s when you got six B’s in a row. Every now and then, the probabilities align the right way, and produce something unusually ordered. Often, we find the opposite remarkable in sports—we are astounded by the miraculous upset, when David defeats Goliath. This time, though, we can appreciate the opposite: Goliath, beating David, over and over again, in a stunning and rare display of the triumph of rational order...
...After senior Jordan Weitzen was sidelined with an injury, the Crimson struggled to fill the outside hitter position. Rapp took it over for this weekend’s matches.“We needed to have some sort of lineup change after all these losses in a row,” Rapp said. “After Jordan quit [playing], it became looking for someone to fill the outside spot. Other people had been given the opportunity, but this was what we thought was the best lineup change.”But for the third straight year, Harvard will...
...they’re very experienced, very dynamic players,” Harvard coach John Tillman said. “They’ve all been playing together for a long time. They disrupt you with the way they play. It was funny because it was 10 in a row but it was a kind of gradual scoring.” Duke would score two more in the final five minutes of the half—both on assists from Danowski, who contributed six points on the day—with 4:21 and 2:14 left to go into...
...Thanks to some off-season shuffling, the Detroit Tigers lineup is now a murderers' row. The club traded for one of the best young hitters in the game, Florida third baseman Miguel Cabrera, who hit .320 last season, with 34 home runs and 119 RBI. The team also acquired Jacque Jones, who batted .332 after the All-Star break with the Chicago Cubs, and Edgar Renteria, long one of the most solid offensive shortstops in baseball (though his defense has declined). Magglio Ordonez, the '07 AL batting champ, and the always dangerous Gary Sheffield return from last year. How good...
...room. "At any given time, there are 100 different amendments to the Communications Act that John McCain believes in," noted a staffer. "He happened to do the one that was being pushed by the people who were raising money for him and whose representative was sitting in the third row." (Through a spokesman, McCain says he never expected the amendment to be accepted and only introduced it to "send a message" to the FCC. Alcalde says he did not request the amendment and does not recall attending the hearing...