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Williamson was a second-round draft choice by the Oakland A's in 1971, out of a small town in Oklahoma called Ada. He was tall and handsome and hard throwing but without much discipline. He lasted six years in the minors, including a stint with the Fort Lauderdale Yankees, before a bad arm and some bad habits landed him back...
Williamson's life that he couldn't get away from. "It was a natural," he says. "He and I are about the same age and grew up at the same time, in the same part of the country. I really dreamed of playing professional baseball, but he was a second-round draft pick! And then to get devoured by your own hometown, to the point where you become mentally...
Mayer’s second-round total of 67 was by far the best single effort for Harvard and was among the best of any competitor in the tournament...
...should." Happily, this kind of attitude has a corrective. It can sometimes be found in sportsmen themselves, but is more reliably expressed by the people who watch sports or report and analyze them for public consumption. Significantly, when Henry performed his theatrical tumble in the World Cup second-round match against Spain, British TV commentators were outraged. Were France to score from the resultant free kick, one of them deposed, it would be a tainted goal. In much the same way, a Press Association report on the semifinal between France and a Portuguese team accused of unfair tactics voted...
...scheduled holes at the Ivy League Championships, the Harvard women’s golf team poised itself to make a run at an unlikely league title, earning second place through a weather-shortened second round on Saturday. Unfortunately for the Crimson, Mother Nature made sure that Harvard’s championship aspirations came up just short. Bad weather on Saturday ended second-round play after just nine holes, while yesterday’s action was completely cancelled. In the end, the Crimson finished with a hard-won second-place finish behind Yale at the Great Gorge Country Club in McAfee...