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...malaise at the plate, baffled by Penn rookie lefty Jim Birmingham. Birmingham, despite struggling with his control (six walks) and topping out in the mid-80’s on the radar gun, owned a no-hitter through seven innings when he was pulled. “He probably threw about 145 pitches,” Walsh said of Birmingham. “[His pitch count] was up there and he’s a young guy. I give the coach credit for taking him out.” Junior Steffan Wilson broke up the Quaker staff?...
...match. Malik denied the allegation and was initially cleared of any wrongdoing. But in 2000, police in the Indian capital New Delhi intercepted a telephone conversation between an illegal bookmaker and South African captain Hansie Cronje in which the two discussed how much Cronje would make if he threw a match. Cronje subsequently admitted to a long series of transgressions and fingered two Indian players, Mohammad Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma, as well as Malik. Following a series of investigations, all four were banned for life by their respective cricket boards...
...last time Allen threw himself into hardware, he created a mouse in the early '80s to boost the fledgling software venture he had started with his school buddy Bill Gates. Allen and Gates met in 1968 at their Seattle private school, Lakeside, where they became protonerds. They spent so much time programming a primitive computer that they could teach their peers--and teachers. Both later dropped out of college to get Microsoft going, but after Allen received a diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease, he stepped down in 1983--the same year his father died...
...Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards are being sued by two paparazzi who claim that the actresses assaulted them and Richards threw the fotogs' laptops off a hotel balcony while the actresses were in Canada filming Blonde and Blonder. Star watcher GOSSIP WORD observes, "Like most things in Anderson's life, the incident was apparently caught on a hotel security tape." SCORE...
...Pakistan had offered them money to lose a match. Malik denied the allegation. Then, in 2000, police in the Indian capital New Delhi intercepted a telephone conversation between an illegal bookmaker and South African captain Hansie Cronje in which the two discussed how much Cronje would make if he threw a match. Cronje subsequently admitted a long series of transgressions and fingered Indian players Mohamed Azharuddin and Ajay Sharma, as well as Pakistan's Malik. Following a wider investigation, all four were banned for life...