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...could Game 6 possibly produce anything close to what had happened in the Bronx? It couldn?t. Instead, baseball in the Twilight Zone had shifted into Pacific Standard Time. The matchup was the same as Game 1, with the Slim Jim slinger, Johnson, paired against Pettitte. The Big Unit came into the playoffs with a horrible 1-7 record, while Pettitte had proven big game credentials. But in this Series, everything that ever happened in baseball before it seems irrelevant. Johnson set the Yanks down in order in the first, while his teammates touched Pettite for a run. Pettitte...
Naturally, some athletes are frustrated with their lack of playing time in college commensurate with their playing time in high school. An apt example is the quarterback situation for the football squad. Sophomore Conor Black and junior J.C. Harrington left the team because their prospects for playing time seemed slim behind senior starter Neil Rose. Ironically, Rose was injured two weeks ago and freshman Ryan Fitzpatrick has had to step up and fill not only Rose’s shoes, but also the void left by potential superiors Black and Harrington...
...tore the ACL in his left knee. As Butler’s story demonstrated, normally such an injury is a temporary setback and only requires surgery and recuperation. But for Leiszler, it was his third such injury in three years. The doctors delivered a grim prognosis and chances are slim that Leiszler will ever play football again...
...year-old son Eric, who had also put in a few hours each week at Davanni's. Lind hasn't pulled Amy out of parochial school yet, but she isn't optimistic about landing another well-paying second job in this weak economy. "Things are now real slim," she says...
After Dartmouth took advantage of an interception of Crimson quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick to make the score 21-0 with under a minute left before the half, the chances of an undefeated season for Harvard seemed slim to none...