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...draft of his admission essay, Zambrano connects the struggles of his grandfather with his own life: “This strong-willed Zambrano gene was instilled in me as well.” The essay describes living in the “myopic, conservative town” of Stockton, Calif., where Zambrano attends the only public school in the district. The school boasts diversity and a growing Latino population, but Zambrano voices a different opinion. “I was a smart kid, I had good grades, but the attention was on the white kids in my class...
Russell had Cousy. Kareem had Magic. And it was always Stockton to Malone.The deadly point-to-center combo historically produces basketball’s greatest.But a couple of guards from Harvard University are looking to change this fate.Meet captain shooting guard Jim Goffredo and sophomore point guard Drew Housman: the Ivy League version of basketball’s dynamic duo.With the captain knocking down threes while looking to lead the team in scoring, and the young point guard creating and distributing, the two seem poised to spark the Crimson—with backcourt dominance.“We potentially have...
...just getting too corporate. There are too many rules that don't really make sense--for example, about our shorts being too long. You go to a Foot Locker--that's what all the kids are buying, the long shorts. Kids ain't buying the short John Stockton shorts...
...abides and the victims are aware that it participated in a vast cover-up, not merely of O?Grady?s crimes, but of other pedophile priests? abuses as well. Their particular target is Cardinal Roger Mahoney, who is the Archbishop of Los Angeles, but was earlier the bishop of Stockton, Calif., in whose diocese O?Grady worked. They have powerful evidence that whenever complaints about O?Grady?s crimes were brought to his attention Mahoney simply transferred him to another parish, making no attempt to sequester him or to find any meaningful therapy for him - if, indeed, therapy could address...
DIED. Abbye Stockton, 88, trailblazer for women's weight-lifting known as the First Lady of Iron, who in 1947 organized the first official lifting meet for women; in Santa Monica, Calif. With husband Les, Stockton--nicknamed Pudgy for her childhood baby fat--helped popularize Muscle Beach in Santa Monica in the 1930s and '40s with demonstrations that included the human pyramid and the high press, in which she stood on Les' hands while balancing a 100-lb. barbell...