pitched, Ellis said, he used Benzedrine and Dexamyl. Pep pills. “I was into the speed in the minor leagues because of the expectations put on me by management and by myself to hurry up and get to the big leagues,” he said. “I had a no-miss tag on me. ‘It’s impossible for...
Could the next step be a ninth-inning role? Miller was terrific in 36 appearances for L.A. in 2023, posting a 1.71 ERA and striking out a batter per inning, and he also pitched a scoreless postseason outing in his first playoff action since 2014. Those numbers were for real, too. ...
Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape and partner in the juggernaut venture capital firm A16Z wrote a seminal blog post titled: “The Only Thing That Matters“, In this post, he introduced the term “product-market-fit” (PMF). As the blog’s title suggests, PMF is the paramount concer...
With an estimated fortune of $320 million as of 2024, Herjavec personally invested more than $16 million across 57 deals pitched on ABC's popular reality television show Shark Tank. He also starred in Canada's version of Shark Tank, "Dragon's Den," for the first six seasons of the show...
Glaber's ad-hoc army didn’t even try to attack Spartacus. Instead, they blocked off the main route up Vesuvius, pitched camp and tried to starve him out. Spartacus took the initiative, having his newly liberated slaves build rope out of wild vines so they could move down the mountainside...
Born in Cuba, Prieto pitched eight seasons -- starting at 15 years old -- in Serie Nacional, the island country’s pro league, eventually becoming a star in the early 1990s. He wanted a chance to pitch in the Majors, however, and after reportedlyfaking injuries and intentionally pitching ...
While not as sophisticated as the songs of prairie dogs, most birds and mammals have at least some rudimentary singing abilities that allow them to communicate. The simplest singing systems in the animal kingdom involve two sounds, a lowpitched growl often used as a threat, and a higher pitch...
navigating camp and the event was straightforward. Redwood groves defined the campsites in Little Basin, which is such a special place for so many reasons. I literally pitched my tent in the middle of a fairy ring, that wasn’t a literary white lie, and a fairy ring is a circle of red...
Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl. (Each man pitched in $1,350 and borrowed another $5,000 from the bank, naming their coffee enterprise after the God-fearing ship’s mate of “Moby-Dick” and adopting a bare-bosomed siren--since toned down, with hair cascading over her breasts--as the com...
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