Word: sheffield
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...displaced by a raucous war for circulation and TV viewers, where skirmishes were fought with tittle-tattle about the Windsors. "The main change of the last 50 years is that the monarchy has become absorbed into, embroiled with, the culture of celebrity," says John Baxendale, a cultural historian at Sheffield Hallam University. The royals could not have remained Victorian icons; they had to find their footing in a media age. But the progress they made was undermined by scandal, especially through the mutual loathing of Charles and Diana. The public snapped it up, ogling the juicy parts while clucking disapprovingly...
...awesome,” Sheffield said. “It couldn’t have worked out better...
Beginning with a one-game Red Rolfe division playoff Wednesday and ending in the second game of a sweep of Princeton in the Ivy Championship Series Saturday, senior pitchers Ben Crockett, Justin Nyweide and Chaney Sheffield combined to allow two earned runs in 23 innings...
Three innings of brilliant relief later, Sheffield was the winning pitcher of the Ivy Championships Series’ deciding game. Standing in front of the dugout after the game, grinning through a mouthful of chocolate-chip cookie, Sheffield tried to express his joy and disbelief...
...stage was then set for Sheffield, a three-year reliever who finally emerged as a weekend starter in the middle of the Ivy League season. Sheffield threw five efficient innings, allowing only one unearned run on three hits, before yielding the mound with the Crimson ahead 2-1 in the sixth...