One strike away: The standard for booting victory is set
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The 1986 Red Sox were one strike away from winning the World Series. They came closer to winning - without actually winning - than any team in baseball history. When you watch a tape of Game 6 (shelved in the sci-fi/horror section of New England video stores), it's still impossible to believe.
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After 899 wins, Bob Knight is as feisty as ever. With about 7 1/2 minutes remaining in the first half of Texas Tech's 75-68 win over UTEP on Saturday, Knight lost his right shoe when he kicked the front of the scorer's table.
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One pitch. Bernie Williams figured Pedro MartÃ­nez gives hitters one pitch per at-bat that is not as nasty as the others and that they might be able to smack for a hit.
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Rules to the My Super Ex-Girlfriend contest.
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It used only to be Australians who suffered from dead-rubber syndrome  that most infuriating of conditions whereby a dominant side could write off a failure to complete a clean-sweep by claiming that the match never mattered anyway. Now, however, it is ...
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The game was there for the taking. Bobby Russo, just seconds away from being named his team's Offensive MVP, broke outside, and in front of him lay an opening he could drive a truck through. He was inches from converting a 2-point conversion that would give the North a 1-point advantage with 41.1 seconds left.
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Know where the bar is set, and know who can beat it.
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One more win and someone is going to have to step up and officially declare that the Boston College men's basketball team is in the midst of a special season.
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The purists went berserk back in 1993. They hated the idea. The wild card was bad for baseball. Just wait and see.
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Break up the Red Sox. A similar cry could be heard from beaten rivals when the Yankees dominated the World Series half a century ago. Now that the Olde Towne Team has won its second October Classic in four years, how many of last night's champagne-spattered champions will be back next spring?
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ATLANTA - Perry Mason lost a case once. Mariano Rivera blows the occasional save during the postseason. Janet Jackson has a clothing malfunction every now and again.
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Calcutta, Sept. 29: Sharad Pawarâs one-day match is over but his defeat has thrown up the first-ever formidable challenge to the way Indiaâs cricket establishment decides who should run it.
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While rappers lick standard-issue grapefruits Comments Monks at the Shaolin Temple in China were so incensed by an assertion by a Japanese internet user that a single ninja had once laid the smackdown on their greatest that they have deployed a feared warrior lawyer (presumably trained to an equally high standard in both law and arse-kicking). They have demanded that the internet user "apologise to the whole nation for the wrongs he or she did". We suggested a pay-per-view "Battle of the Titans" between the kung-fu monks and Japan's top ninjas. This is a match made in Heaven for the many thousands of you who daily debate the merits of the two sides, even if it does lack pirates.â¦
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The task in front of the St. Louis Cardinals is simple really, simply stated at least. They have to do everything better if they are going to beat the Boston Red Sox.
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The extra point is supposed to be a routine play. When you think about it, a lot of it is muscle memory. Snap, hold and a short kick by a former soccer player.
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NORTON -- Defeating a team is one thing, reminding an opponent how the team got to be 5-0 is something few teams accomplish.
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We pledge allegiance to the penguin, and the intellectual property regime for which he stands. One nation, under Linux, with free music and open-source software for all. Welcome to Brazil! By Julian Dibbell from Wired magazine.