Prep baseball: Palmetto Ridge's Cardenas, Irigoyen sign with D-I schools (Collier Citizen)
Though more comfortable in spikes, stirrups and ball caps, Palmetto Ridge seniors Alberto Cardenas and Anthony Irigoyen sported neckties, dress shirts, slacks and hard-soled shoes when they took the biggest step to date of their baseball lives
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At a Time of Loss, Seattle Fans Hold On to Hope (New York Times)
Seattle, which lost its pro basketball team as its football and baseball teams floundered, has, in one fan?s words, ?the worst sports scene in the history of sports scenes.?
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As Seattle Teams Keep Losing, or Leaving, Fans Try Not to Lose Hope (New York Times)
Seattle, which has lost its pro basketball team as its football and baseball teams flounder has, in the words of one fan, ?the worst sports scene in the history of sports scenes.?
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Rare Japan Killings Tied to Loss of Pension Data (New York Times)
The grisly knifing death of a former health ministry official and his wife by an unknown assailant has thrown this normally low-crime nation into an unusual uproar.
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Polo Ralph Lauren fits 88-Keys just fine (Los Angeles Times)
The rapper-producer talks about his penchant for all things preppy, the 'LOhead' phenomenon and his best friend, Kanye West. He wears many hats -- rapper, singer, producer for artists such as Mos Def and Macy Gray -- but 88-Keys, whose teasingly genre-bending debut "The Death of Adam" was released this month, insists that all his hats bear one label: Polo by Ralph Lauren.
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A former crewman honors JFK (La Prensa San Diego)
John Fitzgerald “Jack” Kennedy May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963. The young, skinny Navy officer strolled along the dock and met his new crewmen for the first time, as they stood on the sun-drenched deck of a nondescript, battleship-gray gunboat bearing large white numbers on its hull: PT 109.
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School briefs for Wednesday, Nov. 19 (North County Times)
Baseball meeting slated for Nov. 20 ESCONDIDO –– A meeting for San Pasqual High School parents whose students are interested in playing winter or spring baseball will be held at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 20 in Room 315. Call (760) 745-5855.
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Imperfect Strangers (New York Press)
Mohamed and Ahmed push through the wall of burly, beefy men and force their way up the stairs to the roof-deck bar.
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Caring Communities provides outlet for caring citizens (Farmington Press)
The St. Francois Caring Communities has been collecting money and donations for families in need since the program began in 1999.
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Elko County Volleyball MVP: Owyhee's Tina Gallardo (Elko Daily Free Press)
The defensive specialist on a volleyball team is similar to an offensive lineman on a football team. Or the pinch-runner in baseball.
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