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Le Sacre du Printemps
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? Superstitious? Doesn’t your team really do better when you watch TV from … Continue reading
Hope Springs Anew…We Hope
This has been one of those old-fashioned New York City winters, the bleeding kind that Paul Simon wrote about in “The Boxer,” which seem to have departed with the 1970s. Those were winters before el Niño and la Niña, when … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Right Off the Bat Book, Yankees
Tagged Alex Rodriguez, Cecil "Big Daddy" Fielder, David Cone, Derek Jeter, Edgar Martinez, George Steinbrenner, Hal Steinbrenner, Hank Steinbrenner, Jay Buhner, Jimmy Key, Ken Griffey, Luis Sojo, New York Yankees, Randy Johnson, Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Tim Raines, Tino Martinez, Tony Fernandez, Wade Boggs
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Shut me up, fellas.
Every cricket World Cup, a number of Associate Member (a.k.a. second tier) cricket teams (a.k.a. “minnows”) get to swim with the big fish. This time around, Canada, The Netherlands, Kenya, and Ireland will be duking it out with Australia, India, … Continue reading
Posted in Cricket, England, One-Day Cricket
Tagged Bangladesh, Ireland, Kenya, The Netherlands, World Cup
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What Is a Powerplay?
In the last decade or so, the one-day, 50-over form of the game of cricket has been under assault. Too many longueurs, complain critics and administrators, who look at the thirty overs between the first and the last ten and … Continue reading
The Games Have Begun!
So, the 2011 cricket World Cup is underway, and already Australia and India have thrashed their oppositions, and are looking set fair to do very well. Competition minnows, Kenya and Canada, were sadly thrashed, and look out of their depth. … Continue reading
The World One-Day International Cricket Cup Tournament Has Begun
Every four years, the cricket world’s top teams gather to compete in the 50-over form of the game of cricket. Be sure to check in over these next seven weeks as we cover the games, the stories, and try to … Continue reading
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