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D’backs 3 – Yankees 2 PHOENIX – This time the late-game magic showed up in the Diamondbacks’ dugout and it tore the heart out of the Yankees. Asked to protect a one-run lead in the ninth, his second inning, Mariano Rivera failed because of an errant throw to second by him and giving up three hits, including a bases-loaded bloop single to left by Luis Gonzalez that carried the Diamondbacks to a pulsating, 3-2, victory in front of 49,589 delirious fans at The BOB. Rivera, who entered the game in the eighth after Roger Clemens and Mike Stanton held the...

It was one of the most frustrating challenges that I have faced in years; I just wanted an American flag to fly in front of my home. As so many of you may know, Old Glory is missing from the shelves these days. I set out two days after the attack; back when there was still hope of finding survivors in the rubble, to the neighborhood store where I had always seen stacks of Stars and Stripes, carefully arranged, on a shelf next to the Automotive Department with a slight measure of dust covering the plastic bag which housed them. ...

Without Saying Goodbye. Conversations with “El Yuca”Luis Gonzalez Adiós. I really believe that word is one of the least-used words in my vocabulary, maybe in the entire language of people like myself - Cuban-born people that is. A-Diós. “To God.” To me, that says that we shall never meet again, so go with God then, if not myself. Vaya con Diós. That is so “Hollywood does Mexico.” I can say with authority that Vaya con Diós has never been the choice farewell exclamation of anyone east of the Texas-Louisiana State line, especially of anyone from the Caribbean. I was driving...

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