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...jogging on a public high school track. There are palm trees in the distance, and the low hum of traffic on I-10 is starting to turn into a low roar as the Filipino boxer, clad in a red tracksuit, dashes around the dirt oval despite a painful shin splint. A handful of early-arriving students hang on the chain-link fence surrounding the track and watch him do his work. The Pac-Man is preparing for his March 13 fight against Joshua Clottey, a dangerous but relatively unknown welterweight from Ghana. The $49.95 pay-per-view fight is billed...
...nine-woman squad, the team showed confidence and poise on the way to victory. The Crimson began the season beset with injuries, with 2007 All-Ivy senior Supriya Balsekar out with a hip injury for at least two weeks, sophomore Charlene Neo out against Brown with a shin splint, and freshman June Tiong leaving the match against Williams with an ankle injury. With Balsekar out, Tiong played at the No. 1 spot in her first-ever match as a collegiate athlete. She is one of four recruits—along with fellow freshmen Alisha Mashruwala, Bethan Williams, and Alexandra Zindman?...
...that's off - and that means getting still more tests. New treatments directed against minor problems, or yielding minor improvements, can be major new expenses. Wrist arthroscopy, a high-tech newcomer to my field, seems to treat problems for which few patients seemed to need more than a temporary splint and some aspirin 30 years...
...interior presence to dominate smaller Ivy League big men in the paint.Cusworth worked all of last summer on bulking up, however, and his physical strengthening in combination with an increased aggressiveness down low has led to a breakout campaign. Despite suffering a jammed finger that still requires a splint, Cusworth has played all 16 games for the Crimson this year. On top of his other impressive statistics, he has also made an Ivy-best 129 trips to the free-throw line (no one else in the league has more than 85), 28 more than last season in four fewer games...
...into it: Any better? You've been living in my country all this time and you haven't learned any English? A lively debate on the merits of a bilingual society gave way to a cortisone shot for the same wrist pain. I had our therapists make her a splint and said 'adios'. I liked Rosa...