Sports
All week long, they were asked to justify their position in the NCAA tournament.
March 17, 1995
During the seventh inning of exhibition baseball games played on fields all over Florida and Arizona on Thursday, thousands of fans rose to their feet to pay tribute to tiny Manhattan College’s 75-60 victory over Florida in the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament.
March 19, 2004
World & Nation
A longtime assistant to artist Jasper Johns, whose “Flag” sold at auction in 2010 for $28.6 million, pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he duped a Manhattan gallery into selling stolen work by Johns so he could collect the profits.
Aug. 27, 2014
A tradition at all baseball games is the “seventh-inning stretch.” Where did the tradition begin?
March 24, 1997
Bill Frieder knew Arizona State could play better.
March 19, 1995
Entertainment & Arts
Painter Jasper Johns’ “White Flag” sold for $7 million, the highest auction price ever paid for a contemporary art work, at Christie’s in Manhattan.
Nov. 10, 1988
Jasper Johns’ former assistant has been charged with stealing nearly two dozen pieces from the artist and taking them to a New York gallery that sold them for $6.5 million.
Aug. 15, 2013
Artist Jasper Johns’ former assistant charged with fraud
If points were awarded on the basis of distance the ball traveled before going through the basket, UC Irvine would have won the Freedom Bowl basketball tournament championship by a couple of hundred points Saturday night at the Bren Center.
Nov. 29, 1987
Paul scores 29 points and the Demon Deacons defeat pesky Manhattan, 84-80.
March 21, 2004