windshield cowboy n.— «Spahnie, who teamed with Johnny Sain to lead the old Boston Braves to a 1948 National League pennant, now calls himself a “windshield cowboy.” A bad knee keeps him from riding the range horseback to...
scuffling v.— «RHP Jay Powell was scuffling the first month of the season. He was coming off a poor 2000 during which he spent most of the time on the DL. He had season-ending shoulder surgery in August and had a spotty spring...
ho-d n.— «Frisbees and paragliders competed for airspace last Thursday as the Ketchum Ultimate Frisbee League continued round robin play on the upper fields of Atkinson Park.…The crowd also went wild when Chaka John Schenk of KB’s...
spotter n.— «One of the greatest enforcers of virtue—a “spotter” in the parlance of the day—was the Rev. Henry N. Pringle, secretary of the Maine Christian Civic League. He appeared in the Queen City on Monday, June 24, to...
fade n.— «The New York Yankees continue to be the best value fade in all of major league baseball for sports handicappers. New York is always bet on more than most teams in baseball because of who they are, the history and the money they...
heart-attack kids attrib.— «For the second time in five days, the Miami Fusion, Major League Soccer’s heart-attack kids, won a game with a last gasp.» —“A Little Serna Helps Stop Burn” by Paul Lomartire Palm Beach...