Word: skippering
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...Wohlers to tie the score in the eighth inning of Game 4. There was the unlikely goat: sure-handed Atlanta center fielder Marquis Grissom dropping a fly ball to set up the only run of Game 5. There were the nightly chess matches in Atlanta between Torre and Braves skipper Bobby Cox, each ending in mate for Torre. There was drama on the field--the pitcher's duel between probable Cy Young Award winners Andy Pettitte and John Smoltz--and off the field--Frank Torre getting a new heart on the off day before Game 6. There was the quiet...
Sophomore captain Laura Stearns was the A Division skipper, with classmate Jenny Heath handling duties on her crew. The duo was steady, if not spectacular, garnering eight top-five finishes and never coming in lower than 10th in the two-day event...
Harvard won the A Division with senior Marc Laitin and Molly Merrill working as skipper and crew, respectively. The duo won three races, all on the first day, and added an equal number of second-place finishes. Only twice during the event did they come in lower than sixth...
...coach obviously can't go out onto the field or ice and make a play. And when a team performs poorly, the skipper is usually the first one heading to the local unemployment office...
...under pressure from a dozen Coast Guard women, most of them at the academy, the Coast Guard brass launched a criminal probe into the jokes, according to a recently concluded review of the case obtained by TIME. This was not Blanchard's first such cultural clash. In 1990, as skipper of the Legare, a sleek, new 270-ft. cutter, a female petty officer charged him with sexual harassment, saying he and another commander had treated her unfairly and called her a "Jewish-American princess." (For good measure, she wasn't Jewish.) While Blanchard was never punished, the Coast Guard concluded...