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...despite the extra skater, Harvard failed to establish a presence inside the Cornell zone. A series of lackluster passes sent the Crimson scrambling back towards its own goalmouth, where junior defenseman Tom Walsh coughed up the puck to the Big Red’s Mitch Carefoot. As the two tussled behind the net, Carefoot slipped the puck out to teammate Mike Knoepfli as he streaked towards the goal...
...just over a minute later, after pressuring Crimson defenseman Tom Walsh into a turnover in his own zone, Cornell’s Mitch Carefoot fed the puck to his captain Mike Knoepfli, who punched it in from just outside the crease...
...commodities. He and his partners bought the Sox in 2001 for an estimated $660 million. What Boston fans deemed a curse was, to him, a statistical anomaly at best. Or lousy management. One explanation for Boston's years of failure is that the team wasn't run very well. Tom Yawkey, the owner from 1933 until his death in 1976, was a lumber magnate who was willing to spend money but unwilling to let anyone other than a few trusted cronies run the club. His widow Jean directed the operation until her death in 1992, and then a trust...
...dance-floor-ready hips and dimpled chin. But in A Love Song for Bobby Long, a drama set in New Orleans and due next month, the Pulp Fiction star goes gray to portray an alcoholic literature professor befriended by SCARLETT JOHANSSON. This is no silver-haired sophisticate like Tom Cruise's assassin in this summer's Collateral. "Bobby Long is bruised fruit," says Travolta, 50, of his character. "Kind of decrepit." As for the premature aging, no biggie. "It's never been an issue for me to grow old, grow gray, grow fat, grow skinny." So far only one critic...
...Giants, that is--they hadn't yet decamped for San Francisco). The prospect made a decent showing: three innings, three men on base, no runs scored. Good screwball, nice sinker, not much heat. "If somebody had offered me a Class D professional contract," says the prospect--whose name was Tom Wolfe--many decades later, "I would have gladly put off writing for a couple of decades...