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Halberstam was born not far from Yankee Stadium, but The Teammates (Hyperion; 217 pages) deals not with the Bronx Bombers but with their eternal archrivals, the Boston Red Sox and not so much with their playing careers as with the diamond-shape holes baseball left in their lives when they left the game. Halberstam, whose previous subjects include Vietnam and Bill Clinton, focuses on the four players who formed the core of a powerhouse Boston lineup in the 1940s: Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio (kid brother to Joltin' Joe) and the troubled, tyrannical genius Ted Williams, the last...
...master's degree in education from Kansas' Wichita State, although he never made it past teacher training. He says, half-jokingly, "I found out I hate kids." He moved to Norman, home of the University of Oklahoma, in 1988 to work in the athletic department and became a stadium announcer. Then in 1999 things took a jarring turn. Miller's mother was dying of breast cancer when his father came home from visiting her and suffered a massive heart attack. "He was probably lying on the floor for five minutes before I found him," recalls Miller. Suddenly...
...goes into justifying sociopathic behavior--for example, how can Sandler beat the pacifism out of a Buddhist monk and keep the audience's sympathy? It's classically infantile comedy, ending in a payoff so corny it would have made Frank Capra wince. (This time Sandler has all of Yankee Stadium as his theater of catharsis, with Rudy Giuliani cheering...
When the Harvard men’s lacrosse team stepped on to the field of the Class of 1952 Stadium, it was about to undertake its toughest task of the year—beating Princeton...
...women’s 89 points and fourth-place showing were marked by several highlights. Junior Johanna Doyle won the hammer throw en route to breaking the Brown Stadium record. On the track, freshman Adanna Scott placed second in the 400-meter hurdles. Freshman Jennifer Perry placed second in the 800 meters, while her classmate Laura Maludzinski had a New England qualifying time in the 1500 meters. Furst was third in the 400 meters and the 400-meter relay team also had a third-place finish...