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Philadelphia Phillies defeat San Francisco Giants to extend National League Championship Series - Washington Post
The Top 5 Horror Movie Heroes - Associated Content
'Soldier Zero' series first in new line of Stan Lee comic books - Daily Oklahoman

Philadelphia Phillies defeat San Francisco Giants to extend National League Championship Series - Washington Post

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 10:14 PM PDT

SAN FRANCISCO - He could not have known it at the time, but in the third inning Thursday night, along the first base line of AT&T Park, the San Francisco Giants' entire season may have been skipping toward Aubrey Huff.

If he had closed his glove around one screaming ground ball, this city may still be still celebrating a chance to win its first World Series. Instead, it will be rife with tension in the coming days, as the National League Championship Series is shipped back across the country, to the home of the big, bad Philadelphia Phillies.

There were no heroes, really, in the Phillies' 4-2, season-saving victory in Game 5. There was a goat. It was Huff, the first baseman who shapes his team's soul as much as any player. Who can say what would have different if Huff had squeezed Shane Victorino's hot groundball, if he hadn't kicked it into center field and allowed two base runners to sprint home? What we know is this: The Giants led by a run before Huff's error. They trailed by a run after it, and they would not lead again.

And so the Giants will have to fly back to Philadelphia, where they will have to beat either Roy Oswalt or Cole Hamels in order to finish off the Phillies, the two-time defending National League champions. Tim Lincecum struck out seven, more than the number of base runners he allowed, in seven innings. Roy Halladay was shaky, pulled his groin in the second inning and lasted just six innings. The Giants had a rare opportunity Thursday night, and they let it bounce off their shin.

The Giants still have the series lead, 3-2, and they still like their chances. "As far as confidence goes," Lincecum said, "we've got a lot of it." But they had a chance to clinch, and defensive mistakes and leaving seven men on base led to giving the Phillies new life.

"We did exactly what we had to do," Phillies Manager Charlie Manuel said. "We won the game. Going back home, we have Oswalt going the first game and Hamels the second, and, like, we're going to have to like it. I do like. I figure we definitely kind of changed things around a little bit."

In late afternoon, the game promised greatness, nothing less. Willie Mays threw out a ceremonial first pitch, introduced as "simply the greatest player to ever play the game of baseball." Halladay and Lincecum were set to reprise their Duel For The Ages that fizzled last weekend. The Giants stood 27 outs from the World Series; the Phillies needed a historic comeback to cement a mini-dynasty.

And then the game started. It was a lot of things - sloppy, dramatic, weird, head-scratching - but not exactly great. The teams combined for two errors and many, many other plays that could or should have been made that decided both the flow and result of the game. They played the top of the sixth inning in a driving rainstorm.

Even Halladay was not immune. If you had to list the starting pitchers you would choose to win one game with your life on the line, you would not name many before you got to Halladay. On Thursday, though, he was only ordinary from the start.

Halladay walked Andres Torres, and Freddy Sanchez followed with a hit-and-run single to center field. The Giants had men on the corners, and Halladay started Huff with two balls. You could make a list of the things you didn't expect to happen after Halladay's first 10 pitches: two base runners, no outs and the pitching coach, Rich Dubee, standing on the mound for a chat.

And then Huff smoked the 11th pitch. He drilled a line drive down the first base line. "As soon as I hit it," he said, "I thought it was by him." But Ryan Howard dove and, somehow, snared the liner. Rather than a run and no outs, Halladay had stemmed the tide.

"We had him on the ropes early," Huff said. "That should have been a big inning. That kind of sucked the life out."

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The Top 5 Horror Movie Heroes - Associated Content

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 08:38 AM PDT

Horror movies are usually known for the monstrous villain, but without characters to root for, the killing and scares almost become boring. A horror movie hero stands out from the rest of the characters. You want them

to survive, defeat the villain, and appear in the sequel.

The following list of horror movie heroes captures some of the best characters that entertained audiences, put up a fight, and helped make the horror movies classics that they are known for today.

Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn : Ash - From working at the tiny S-Mart to battling zombies in the woods, Ash (Bruce Campbell) is a hero everywhere he goes. He's quick witted, romantic with the ladies (before they're zombified), and knows a thing or two about killing zombies.

In one of the more memorable scenes, Ash takes on his own processed hand and eventually cutting it off. Instead of worrying about the pain or complaining about the new handicap, Ash does the next best thing: attaches a chainsaw to it.

Just as Ash slice and dices his way through the small cabin, he is miraculously sent through time and the Army of Darkness sequel was easily set up.

Ash lives on in the comic book world as he takes his heroic efforts up against Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger in the Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash series.

Halloween: Dr. Loomis - After taking care of Michael Myers for several years, only Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) knows the dangerous situation that occurs when he escapes. While the rest of the town runs from the crazed killer, Loomis chases after him.

In the climatic moments of the first Halloween, Dr. Loomis shoots him six times or "SIX TIMES! SIX TIMES! I SHOT HIM SIX TIMES!" as he proclaimed in Halloween 2.

Loomis continues his never-ending quest, even suffering burns at the hands of Michael. He eventually dies, but he helped define the series just as much as Jamie Lee Curtis and The Shape himself.

They Live- George Nada: Never has anyone battled aliens with as much cockiness and swagger as They Live's George Nada (Former WWE Star Roddy Piper.) After wearing the sunglasses that lets him see the aliens, Nada has a street fight with his own friend to show him the alien truth.

'Soldier Zero' series first in new line of Stan Lee comic books - Daily Oklahoman

Posted: 21 Oct 2010 01:46 PM PDT

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"I'm incredibly pleased to be working with Stan Lee — this is basically the man who taught me how to read!" Cornell said at Comic-Con International, where the series was announced.

Cornell said he hopes his book will take a serious look at the problems of wheelchair users, while at the same time providing an exciting action story. Stewart Trautman is a veteran of the Afghanistan war who's now an astronomy lecturer at Caldon University. When an alien parasite falls to Earth, Stewart becomes infected, and goes through superhuman changes.

"Rather like Peter Parker is a hero who is limited only by his environment and escapes as Spider-Man, Stewart is limited only by his environment, by the attitudes of other people, by the fact that there aren't enough ramps, by the fact that the world is not in the right shape for wheelchairs," Cornell said. "He has to come back to his regular existence all the time."

Lee compared working on this new line for Boom! to his time in the so-called "Marvel Bullpen," when he created the Marvel heroes.

"I'm in at the creation of these stories, and I marvel at their imagination, their sense of drama," he said.

Cornell said these projects with Stan Lee are completely modern takes, but show what's great about a Stan Lee hero.

"I think this is like Rick Rubin's work with Johnny Cash: There's nothing retro or pastiche about these projects," he wrote at PaulCornell.com.

"They're bang up-to-date uses of Stan's classic, timeless skills, which I think the bravery of the concept I've been given demonstrates."

"Soldier Zero" No. 1 is on sale now.

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