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...Having spent nearly every weekend covering football, I knew the team pretty well. I knew its tendency to play down to the level of the mediocre teams it faced, I knew its struggles to close out close games, and I knew it had to stop Yale running back Mike McLeod to have any chance. I knew this all too well—I had written columns about it in the weeks leading up to The Game...
...matter how well she skied, she just did not have enough help to improve her team’s finish,” Kinner said. The alpine squad welcomes five additional team members next winter, with three freshman recruits coming in and another pair of skiers returning from time spent away from the team or school. This added depth should only help the alpine contingents continue to close the distance between them and other collegiate alpine skiing programs throughout the region. “Everyone has to step up next year,” Kinner said...
Demauro declined to reveal how much money she won, but gambling experts estimate that if she made good bets, her winnings were probably in the hundreds of thousands; expert bets would have put them in the millions. Demauro and Capra spent the rest of their holiday weekend in Atlantic City, and even returned to the same craps table two nights later - but only as spectators. "The expectations were too high," she says. "I wasn't ready to be the shooter again...
...blood sugar and inject herself regularly with insulin. After that, her mother Celina raised Sotomayor and her younger brother Juan on a nurse's salary but still managed to send them to Catholic schools that prepared them for bigger things. Today Juan is a doctor. His sister, who spent a lot of time as a kid watching Perry Mason on television, had other plans...
...Some climbers have said that global warming is making the hike up Everest more dangerous. Did you notice anything different this time around? In the six weeks I spent living down at base camp, I've never heard so many avalanches in every direction. Two people got killed while I was there because they tried to get up the icefall to Camp 1. They were climbing at a sensible time, like 6 a.m., before the sun was up, and still got blown out. They found one pair of boots. You need quite a lot of blast to blow somebody...