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  • Shop owner’s house of cards is still standing

    May 28, 2003 at midnight

    Two days ago, I went back to my old playground. There was no swingset, though. No monkey bars, no sandbox, not even any grass. That’s because my old playground is ...
  • Despite wins over Washington St., coach’s future uncertain

    May 27, 2003 at midnight

    After an 18-7 win over Washington State in Pullman on Sunday, the only certainty for Gary Adams and his UCLA baseball team is that the 2003 season is over. Whether ...
  • Football cornerstone settles into corner office

    May 21, 2003 at midnight

    Karl Dorrell, 39, has a corner office. By most standards, he’s way ahead of schedule. He could pass for 30. It probably wouldn’t surprise the youthful Dorrell if he were ...
  • Nothing can outrival ‘Sundays With Papa’

    May 14, 2003 at midnight

    Every Sunday at 11 a.m., whether I’m at my apartment or not, the phone rings. When I’m not there, the message always sounds like this: “Hi Jeffrey, this is your ...
  • Bruins ready to secure win against Waves

    May 13, 2003 at midnight

    The Bruins are poised to win their third straight midweek game tonight when they take on Pepperdine in Malibu, and that would be all well and good if it were ...
  • Paintball: the painful ‘friendly’ war game

    May 7, 2003 at midnight

    I’m a lover, not a fighter. The closest I ever get to a gun is when I play Contra on Nintendo, and even then I usually need to use the ...
  • Team rallies to 8-7 win

    May 7, 2003 at midnight

    All night long, the Bruins had been slamming balls over the fence. Even senior Christian Lewis, who until last night had one home run to his credit in four years, ...
  • Mike Seidman graduates to the NFL

    April 30, 2003 at midnight

    People do this kind of thing all the time. You meet your buddy at a bar, you have a couple of beers, you joke about the old times, you wonder ...
  • For $2,500, imagine a day with Canseco

    April 23, 2003 at midnight

    During his heyday – somewhere between all those arrests but some time before that ball bounced off his head – the one thing you didn’t do to Jose Canseco was ...
  • Warm up to hockey, a sport rich in tradition

    April 16, 2003 at midnight

    OK, I think I've finally worked up the courage. I llll… What I mean to say is, well, I lllllov… You see, I love y… I love you, hockey. There, ...