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...Saturday Night Live—Best of Will Ferrell” DVD. Okay, I’ll admit that I exaggerated slightly when I said that I don’t like my roommates. As long as we aren’t talking about the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, we get along pretty well. In fact, some of the faults that I mentioned can actually be seen in a positive light. The “intense student” roommate that I warned you to avoid serves as a useful reminder to me and my roommates that we don?...
When I think of Oct. 25, 1986—Game 6 of the Mets-Red Sox World Series—I think of crushing disappointment, intense rivalries, and die hard fans. However, this image is quite different from what “Game 6” screenwriter Don DeLillo, author of the novels “White Noise” and “Underworld” had in mind...
...says, “It’s a lot better than sitting around hitting off a tee. There’s a lot you can get from game action.” And though he entered his freshman and sophomore seasons as a reserve behind one-time Red Sox draft pick Zak Farkes, Byrne ended each as the starter thanks to his timely hitting when presented with an opening. He hit .326 last year in 35 games, 27 of which were starts, and his slugging percentage of .483 was sixth-best on the team. His on-base percentage...
...Because I used to see the guys eating in Annenberg. The recruited baseball players. I was really skinny as a freshman, and they were a lot bigger than me.”He laughs now, noting former and current teammates like senior Josh Klimkiewicz and Red Sox farmhand Zak Farkes ’06. “And I was just like, man, I was too scared to even go down and play,” Brown says.Eventually, Brown tried out—and caught the eye of Walsh. He had never had a power...
...CURT GOWDY, 86, folksy father of TV sportscasting whose authoritative game calling earned him 13 Emmys and fans in sports ranging from fishing to basketball; in Palm Beach, Fla. The Wyoming-born "Cowboy," as he was known, gained renown over 15 years of calling games for the Boston Red Sox, initially incensing fans by mangling the names of players' New England hometowns. Over five decades he created a popular TV show (The American Sportsman) and called numerous Super Bowls...