BOSTON †Once they were the "Bad Boys," the first team to bring in-your-face, blue-collar defense to the NBA. The names were Isiah Thomas and Joe Dumars, Bill Laimbeer and Dennis Rodman, and the style was lunch pail and hard hat, as tough as working on the line in the automobile factories Detroit was built on.
BOSTON †Once they were the “bad boys,” the first NBA team to bring in-your-face, blue-collar defense into the NBA. The names were Isiah Thomas and Joe Dumars, Bill Laimbeer and Dennis Rodman, and the style was lunch pail and hard hat, as tough as working on the line in the automobile factories Detroit was built on.
DUBLIN †The Danville High School boys baseball team earned the respect it truly deserves on Monday night, as it used a lot of heart and a few scrappy plays to nearly take out the state’s second-ranked team at Dublin Jerome High School. The Blue Devils led Newark Catholic by as much as four, 5-1, but the Green Wave rallied and won the Division IV Central District Semifinal game in the bottom of
La Cañada boys’ swimming coach Art Lopez and girls’ swimming coach Steve Silversparre were camped out next to each other in red and blue nylon folding chairs just underneath the bleachers minutes before the start of the first race of the CIF Southern Section Division II swimming meet in Long Beach.
CRYSTAL LAKE – With his team down a run and with a runner on base with two outs in the bottom of the seventh Monday, Josh Fick stepped to the plate with the game in the balance.
Western Albemarle and Fluvanna County’s boys soccer teams battled Tuesday night in a match that did justice to the fact that each team’s season was on the line.
Darien shot a 155 to easily defeat Central at CCD on May 13. “As has often been the case the Blue Wave were led by Philip Winter (37) and David Bushing (38),” Wave coach Tom O’Donnell said.
The beginning of Gina B. Nahai’s “Caspian Rain” (MacAdam Cage, 2007, $25) is almost fairy tale-like, sighing with promise and expectation: “She’s sixteen years oldâ€a young woman in a city with blue mountains.”
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