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...from being the best player in the league one year, to being injured or useless the next year. It was pretty much a regular thing for a long period of time. As a model of inconsistency, he was it. [More recently, ex-New York Yankee third baseman Scott Brosius, MVP of the 1998 World Series, gets a miserable "D+" consistency grade from James. Ex-outfielder Eric Davis, a two-time All-Star and solid player throughout his 17 seasons from 1984-2001, gets just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q & A: Baseball Guru Bill James | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...there are a lot of players in very, very good shape. Our problem, in quotation marks, is that we have two centerfielders. So when your problem is that you have two of something, that's a lot better problem than having none of something. Do we foresee a third world championship? No. That might be considered cocky. But we have a good team, and we should have a decent year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q & A: Baseball Guru Bill James | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...sophomore and took home the 200 in her freshman year. Pangilinan’s path to Saturday’s race, a brilliant finish to her career for the Crimson, started four years ago, before she even took a stroke in Blodgett Pool. It was half a world away in Athens, Greece. In 2004, Pangilinan competed at the Summer Olympics. She represented the Philippines, where she holds two national records in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke. “I was so young. It was the first time I was away from my parents,” Pangilinan said...

Author: By Nick Traverse, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four-Time Champ Pangilinan Looks To Beijing | 3/4/2008 | See Source »

They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Apparently, so is geekiness. It was a typical Friday afternoon last October for Justin M. Grosslight, a third-year Ph.D. student in the History of Science department. Grosslight was seated alone inside Café Pamplona waiting for a colleague who was late when he noticed a man and a woman watching him intently from across the restaurant.“I finally just walked up to them and asked: ‘Can I help you with something?’” Grosslight said...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beauty and the Teaching Fellow | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

...Hillary Clinton—though he has not yet won any delegates. “If you don’t have any visibility, you can’t get any contributions,” Gravel said. “Since there is no one in the corporate world who will help me, my funding dried up pretty quickly.” But Gravel said he believed that with the withdrawal of other candidates for the Democratic nomination, he was beginning to receive more attention from the media. He added that the media’s focus on the race...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gravel Speaks at Emerson | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

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