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10 Oct 2009 13:51

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Sports: Ryan Howard upsets 12-year-old girl. 12-year-old girl gets even.

  • give 12-year-old Jennifer Valdivia caught slugger Ryan Howard’s record-setting 200th home run ball at a Phillies game in July. She offered to give the ball to Howard, with the promise he would show up. He never did.
  • take Feeling that the potentially-valuable ball was stolen from her. Valdivia and her mother got a lawyer, and this week, in the midst of the Phillies’ playoff run, threatened to sue. The ball was promptly returned. source
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14 Apr 2009 09:53

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Culture: Death comes in threes. Here’s three people who died recently.

  • one Marilyn Chambers, who you either know from old-school boxes of Ivory Snow or from your dad’s old-school porn collection.
  • two Harry Kalas, whose voice you either know because you’re a Phillies fan or you watch classic NFL documentaries on television.
  • three Mark “The Bird” Fidrych, who you either know because you’re a baseball fan from the ’70s or like random sports trivia.
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