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Year in Review 2001 | Sports Personalities

By Mike Morrison, John Gettings, and Gerry Brown People Ray BourqueIchiro SuzukiJennifer CapriatiBarry BondsDale Earnhardt Jr.Marshall FaulkCurt Schilling & Randy JohnsonDanny…

NFC Central

Expect more of the same from Barry Sanders in 1998. He'll be leaving behind the competition. What's not to like about this division? It sent four teams to the playoffs last year and features some…

Baseball Fun Facts

The first World Series was played between Pittsburgh and Boston in 1903 and was a nine-game series. Boston won the series 5-3.The New York Yankees have won 26 World Series titles, which is more than…

Broadcasting Timeline

Here are key moments in the evolution and history of broadcasting. 1897 K.F. Braun invents the cathode-ray tube…

National Football League Team Profiles

America's Favorite Pastime by Mark Zurlo With millions of fans across the globe, football has become one of the world's most popular sports, and has (arguably) replaced baseball…

Antony and Cleopatra

By:William ShakespeareDirector:Barrie RutterSets and costumes:Jessica WorrallLighting:Brian HarrisSound:Conrad NelsonOpened:10/97 at the Majestic TheaterCast:Ishia Bennison, Barrie Rutter,…

Major League Individual All-Time Hitting Records

(Through 2006) Highest Batting Average, Season—.440, Hugh Duffy, Boston N.L., 1894;.435, Tip O'Neill, St. Louis, A.A., 1887. (Since 1900—.426, Nap Lajoie, Phil. A.L., 1901); 424, Rogers Hornsby, St…

Gothic revival

(Encyclopedia) Gothic revival, term designating a return to the building styles of the Middle Ages. Although the Gothic revival was practiced throughout Europe, it attained its greatest importance in…

Rawls, John Bordley

(Encyclopedia) Rawls, John Bordley, 1921–2002, American philosopher and political theorist, b. Baltimore, grad. Princeton (A.B., 1943; Ph.D., 1950). He taught at Princeton (1950–52), Cornell (1953–59…