CHATTER: TIDE TURNS FOR CRIMSON ARM.Byline: Lee Barnathan Staff Writer There's the Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. jinx jinx n. 1. A person or thing that is believed to bring bad luck. 2. A condition or period of bad luck that appears to have been caused by a specific person or thing. tr.v. , in which an athlete featured on the cover goes on to misfortune. Chaney Sheffield discovered a similar jinx exists at Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. . After spending three seasons as a pitcher, Sheffield, a Viewpoint High of Calabasas graduate, played some outfield and hit over .300 to start this season. The school newspaper, the Daily Crimson, wrote a feature story, after which Sheffield went 0 for 27. He's currently at .233. But he made up for it by pitching Harvard past Princeton last week to win the Crimson's fourth Ivy League Ivy League Group of eight universities in the northeastern U.S., high in academic and social prestige, that are members of an athletic conference for intercollegiate gridiron football dating to the 1870s. title in the past six years. Next up is the NCAAs. Sheffield is 3-1 with a 3.86 ERA for Harvard (20-24). He didn't pitch until later in the season, but once he got his chance, he held on to his spot. Pitching at least five innings and giving up just one or two runs each start will do that for you. ``Usually I've been pretty consistent, except when I tend to bounce the curveball going for the strikeout,'' Sheffield said. ``Coaches don't like that. But my command got better. I had fun and didn't think. I'm so happy. It felt like high school again.'' ... Georgia State softball player Corrie Roberts, who played at Harvard-Westlake of Studio City, was named to the All-Atlantic Sun Conference team for the fourth time. She batted .349 with a team-best six home runs, and will finish her career as the school's career-hits leader. ... Former Harvard-Westlake soccer player Jill Oakes scored two goals for the U.S. under-19 national team in a 15-0 victory over Suriname in the CONCACAF CONCACAF Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Soccer) CONCACAF Confederacion Norte, Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol Asociacion (Spanish) world qualifying tournament. The United States and Mexico filled the 12-nation field for the U-19 World Championship this summer in Canada. The Americans romped to qualifying victories over Suriname, Haiti (5-0) and Costa Rica (14-1) as Oakes, a defender bound for UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , was named tournament MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. . Staff writer Jill Painter contributed to this report. |
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