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...likely would spend the majority of his time on the field.It was the bottom of the first inning of a game in Manchester, Conn. when Andy Parrino, a shortstop for the Silkworms, attempted to steal second. The throw from catcher Kris Watts to Brown, who covered, took a wild skip off the playing surface.It one-hopped directly into Brown’s face—“Smoked me,” he says. He crumpled to the dirt.“So I tried to be a tough guy,” Brown says...
...after losing in the finals.After Saturday’s competition, all four wrestlers clinched berths in the NCAA Championships, which will be held in Oklahoma City on March 17-19. The top three wrestlers in each weight class in the EIWAs earn a berth in the NCAA, and 14 wild-card wrestlers are selected by a vote among league coaches to join the group.Overall in the EIWAs, Harvard finished fifth out of 13 teams in the tournament, putting up 79.5 points. The Crimson placed just behind Navy, which finished with 86 points, while Lehigh, Cornell, and Penn finished...
Canadians sometimes wonder whether Alberta is actually tethered to the rest of the country, at least temperamentally. With its right-of-mainstream attitudes and its progressive, get-it-done mentality, Wild Rose Country is looking increasingly like the wild child of the Canadian family. From their vantage point, Albertans increasingly view the rest of Canada as a crotchety, aging relative: slow moving and stuck in the past...
Budnitz's breakout deal, though, could be the one he just signed with the San Francisco digital-animation studio Wild Brain. It opens the arena of TV shows, animated shorts and feature films to Kidrobot's characters. "It's going to blow everything away," says Budnitz. Says Wild Brain CEO Charles Rivkins, former head of the Jim Henson Co.: "A portion of Paul's vision has been capital constrained...
...DIED. JACK WILD, 53, former child actor who starred as the Artful Dodger in the 1968 film Oliver!; of mouth cancer; in London. Wild's impish charms won him an Oscar nomination for his part in the Dickens adaptation and earned him a starring role in the surreal U.S. kids' TV show H.R. Pufnstuf in 1969. But adult acting roles dried up as he struggled with alcoholism in later years. After giving up drinking in the 1980s, Wild appeared in a series of bit parts, including a supporting role in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves...