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OAKLAND, Calif.--Unsung heroes had played strong supporting roles, but Oakland's season-long stars dominated a familiar script the day the Athletics won their first American League pennant since...
Last year, for the second time, Zurbriggen won skiing's overall World Cup, the measure of season-long excellence in the Alpine disciplines (slalom; giant slalom; super-G, for super giant slalom; and downhill). He dominated the world championship at Crans-Montana with two gold medals and two silvers. He leads the current World Cup, and this Olympic year could establish him as the best all-event male Alpine skier since Jean-Claude Killy. Not the best male Alpine skier, without qualification, over this period; that would be Sweden's astonishing Ingemar Stenmark, still campaigning at 31, a self-invented...
BEST SCUFF/SNUFF JOB Minnesota Pitcher Joe Niekro was caught with an emery board on the mound at the height of baseball's season-long tempest over scuffed balls and corked bats. A meaner illegal substance, cocaine, stymied Mets Pitcher Dwight Gooden...
...loss to the Bruins epitomizea Harvard's season-long problem--an inability to pressure the opponent's goal. Saturday's shutout left the Crimson with only one goal in its last three games...
...loss is only one battle in a season-long war for a post-season playoff...