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By Jerry Bembry | March 21, 1991
It was in December, when Coppin State got off to a 1-4 start, that coach Fang Mitchell began to question the makeup of his team."What we lack now is a vocal leader, and we'll need somebody to do that before the year is out," Mitchell said then. "Somebody will come along."Mitchell's hope was wishful thinking after the Eagles, who won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference regular-season title for the second season in a row, were bounced in the semifinals of the conference tournament and in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament.
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By JOHN EISENBERG | September 6, 1995
There was, it turned out, no way to prepare for the night when the deal came down.Is that incredible? We had 14 years to prepare for the moment when Cal Ripken finally caught Lou Gehrig -- 14 years to wonder what it would look like, what it would feel like, how it would resonate in our hearts -- and still there was no way to prepare for what happened last night at Camden Yards.No way to prepare for the sight of that number hanging there on the warehouse wall.No way to prepare for the Orioles, as if on cue from the beaming baseball gods, hitting as many home runs as they have ever hit in a game in Baltimore, marking the night in truly celestial fashion.
NEWS
May 22, 1992
In an emotional response to the Los Angeles riots, Californians are rushing to gun stores. State law makes them wait 15 days before completing weapons purchases, so buyers have even made a run on World War II rifles, for which there is no waiting period. L.A. gun shops have reported 50-percent, even 100-percent sales increases. People in other states are also rushing to buy guns. (There's no telling how bad it is here. Maryland State Police figures for April and May gun-permit applications won't be available before June.
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By JOHN STEADMAN | August 29, 1994
What Bill Gildea does in his new book is turn his heart inside out. It's right there, 311 pages worth, an elegantly written text with touching sensitivity and profound emotion -- as much a story of family as one about football, the city of Baltimore and a team that was presumed, erroneously as it turned out, to be a public trust.It's a keen writing effort that does far more than document the records and achievements of a litany of past heroes, men with names such as Unitas, Donovan, Mutscheller, Lipscomb, Moore, Berry, Parker and Marchetti.
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By RAY FRAGER | February 19, 1994
The triumph of Dan Jansen is one of the most emotional Olympic stories in recent memory. This was practically a goof-proof story for CBS.Not that the network didn't try.OK, I can accept the waiting until after 10 p.m. to start. And Charles Kuralt's short piece was a nice setup.Then came the competition, and in relatively short order came Jansen. He set a world record in the 1,000-meter speed skating. At that moment, he wasn't assured of a medal, but it was an emotional moment for him and his family entourage, especially his wife.
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By Joe Christensen and Joe Christensen,SUN STAFF | October 12, 2004
NEW YORK - Mariano Rivera was so overcome by emotion when the New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox in Game 7 of last year's American League Championship Series, he ran from the dugout to the mound and collapsed. Aaron Boone had just hit his 11th-inning home run, and the rest of Yankee Stadium was pandemonium, but Rivera spent those moments alone in prayer on the same spot where he had just pitched three brilliant innings. The emotion the normally stoic Rivera expressed that night showed how deeply the feelings run in this epic rivalry, which resumes tonight right where everyone expected it to resume, in Game 1 of another ALCS.