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...those who haven't played, it's hard to understand why so many would invest so much in a mere fantasy game. The starter software kit costs $40, as does each of three add-ons that let you explore different continents on Norrath (a fourth arrives in October). There's also a monthly fee of $12.95 for the online service. Yet hundreds of thousands regularly pay up--and not just teenage boys. The average age of EverQuest players is 31, and they include as many lawyers and homemakers as students and Silicon Valley geeks...
...stage was then set for Sheffield, a three-year reliever who finally emerged as a weekend starter in the middle of the Ivy League season. Sheffield threw five efficient innings, allowing only one unearned run on three hits, before yielding the mound with the Crimson ahead 2-1 in the sixth...
...then Crockett was summoned to pitch in Harvard’s one-game divisional playoff against Brown last Wednesday, meaning that he would have to be shelved for most if not all of the series with the Tigers. That—plus a nagging shoulder injury to sophomore starter Marc Hordon—threw Harvard’s postseason pitching plans completely out of whack...
Redemption was the rule all day Saturday. In the sixth inning of Game Two, here was junior Kenon Ronz, fallen from grace as a starter just a year before, but reborn as Harvard’s lefty specialist. During the 2002 stretch run, Ronz had teamed with senior middle-man Mike Dryden and junior closer Barry Wahlberg to form Harvard’s own version of the Nasty Boys bullpen that made headlines for the Cincinnatti Reds in the early 1990s...
Tanner picked up her first career win, pitching three innings in relief of the starter Brotemarkle without giving up an earned run. Tanner had struggled in earlier outings this season but finally came off age on Saturday...