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...baseball were this great all the time, Bud Selig wouldn't be trying to shrink the league. With Manhattan smoldering, the Yankees bore the city's pain and pride to the Bronx and won three games there, snatching two with midnight dramatics. No sentimental ending, though. The Arizona Diamondbacks' spectacular pitching duo of Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson numbed Yankee bats in Phoenix, while a seventh-game, bottom-of-the-ninth rally provided a classic, and deserved, triumph for the home team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of 2001: Sport | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...FOOTBALL FANS. The XFL's spectacular failure was a victory for authentic sports and a warning to the WWF and NBC, its founding partners, that even bloodsport fans have standards. They promised us smashmouth football; we got trashmouth football narrated by Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura and played by buffoons. Hooray for football fans who tackled this one for a loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst of 2001: Sport | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...primarily Han Chinese city that hosts the province's major industry, a university and a few hotels. As you head west, the terrain becomes more desolate and the Chinese influence fades. Since most tours are organized out of Hohhot, you have to travel long distances to reach the most spectacular western deserts. But the dramatic landscape along the way is its own reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Solitude and Sand, Try Inner Mongolia | 12/19/2001 | See Source »

Those mixed signals were the side effect of fighting a proxy war. Since the start of the conflict, the U.S. strategy of striking ruthlessly from the air while enlisting Afghan forces to wage war on the ground has paid spectacular dividends. But as the campaign has lurched toward an endgame, the limits of the strategy have become glaring. The absence of a sizable American battle force on the ground has left the U.S. unable to dictate the terms of surrender, making it easier for Omar to go on the lam and perhaps emboldening bin Laden in his game of hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Manhunt: Into The Caves | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

Grumet-Morris was often spectacular between the pipes, stopping 35 shots, eclipsing his previous career high of 31 against St. Lawrence earlier this season...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Powerful M. Hockey Ties No. 9 Michigan | 12/13/2001 | See Source »

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