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Harvard blanked Columbia, 34-0, dominating the Lions despite occasional periods of sloppy play. The game, played in front of 6,721 at Harvard Stadium, was Harvard's first victory at home this year...
...recently sponsored the 'World's Loudest Stadium Roar' at a game featuring the Patriots and Broncos," he said. "The noise level was displayed on the stadium's big screen. And we reached 128 decibels...
...first New York-New York Series, when both the Yanks and Giants played in the Polo Grounds in 1921. The Giants won that Series and the next year's too. In the first game of the 1923 Series, Stengel hit the first World Series home run ever in Yankee Stadium, an inside-the-park job that broke a 4-4 tie in the ninth. He lost his shoe while running; Damon Runyon made fun of him in the papers. Two days later, Casey hit another homer and thumbed his nose at the Yankees while rounding third. Ruth hit three that...
There are 8 million story angles in the Subway Series, and it's a shame the best won't play out. All of Gotham is upset that Torre is shielding Clemens by pitching the notorious headhunter only in Yankee Stadium, where the American League's designated-hitter rule says pitchers can't bat and therefore can't get plunked. Mets fans know and Yankees fans suspect that Clemens purposely beaned Piazza during a midsummer game in the Bronx, and in this eye-for-an-eye city, there's a law about facing the music. Says Knoblauch of the Series...
...first stop was the memorial to Kim Il Sung's first speech after the defeat of the Japanese. It was a big mosaic, about 20-by-80 feet, depicting happy farmers, machinists and artists looking on in adoration as the original Great Leader spoke. In front of a stadium just past the mural, an old woman with an overstuffed rucksack and a younger man also with a heavy sack on his back got up and started wandering away, frightened of the foreigners and their minders...