Gabe Stefanini began the basketball season an unknown quantity and quickly emerged as Columbia’s glue, a life raft keeping the Lions afloat. For a program desperately needing a steady hand, Stefanini’s exemplary play offered a glimpse at the team-wide sea change that can occur when a role player becomes a star.
Read More“When it comes to reality, these athletes are really the heroes that it comes to, because they're the people that [young black kids] are gonna be. It's not Batman, Superman. We want to be LeBron James.”
Read MoreA bushel of needles prods the body repeatedly, depositing ink with each injection. The recipient of such treatment may wince, grimace, or remain stone-faced, having become familiar with or, perhaps, taking pleasure in the act of being stabbed.
Read MoreThe name implies something sharp: a quick left turn or a jagged, jutting movement into a new terrain. In baseball, from which the name derives, the change-up pitch refers to several individual acts happening all at once. In sequence, the pitcher frames his body and arches his release, projecting a sense of where the ball might arrive.
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