Article: Rollins tops Holliday as NL's MVP Baseball

Article: Rollins tops Holliday for NL's MVP award BASEBALL
International Herald Tribune;  November 22, 2007 ;     568 words ......exactly how to respond. Rollins and C.C. Sabathia of the...African-American. After Rollins was asked about the potential...passionately about the topic. Rollins mentioned Jackie Robinson...battle, to play baseball," Rollins said. "For these numbers...numbers that strengthened Rollins' ...

Article: Phillies' Rollins small with big swing Phillies' Rollins small with big swing
Oakland Tribune;  September 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Hit more grounders. For years, Jimmy Rollins heard the same criticism from people who...injury-depleted Phillies stay in the playoff race. Rollins, an Encinal graduate, was hitting .298...30 homers and 30 steals in one season. Rollins has a legitimate chance to accomplish...

Article: Success with Phillies is paying off in big way for Rollins
Oakland Tribune;  June 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ...OAKLAND -- Jimmy Rollins has walked into the Coliseum many times...homecomings been as happy as the one Rollins experienced Friday. First, the Philadelphia...Coliseum, the ballpark of his boyhood. Rollins often attended A's games while growing...

Article: Slowing of Rollins slows Phillies, too.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ...PHILADELPHIA _ Jimmy Rollins, unlike Ferris Bueller, never sought...his major-league life. Rookies like Rollins aren't silly enough to take for granted...finally earned. That does not mean that Rollins is blind to the look he's projecting...

Article: Rollins gives the Phillies what they need.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 8, 2001 ;     700+ words ......but to play there for a while. So don't fret if Rollins lofted some harmless fly balls to the outfield in...over the Chicago Cubs. I'm just a tad bit off, said Rollins, confidently indifferent to any suggestion that...put things together, and I felt good at the plate, Rollins said. I had one hit, and I ...

Article: Rollins plays Poitier role in new `Heat of the Night'
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 25, 1988 ;     700+ words ...HAMMOND, La. Actor Howard E. Rollins Jr. flashed a smile and said, "Yes, he has given me advice." The "he" Rollins was referring to is veteran actor Carroll...and north of New Orleans. O'Connor and Rollins were on location filming "In the Heat...

Article: Colleagues Blame Rollins's Ego; Could Political Consultant's Shot From the Lip Sink His Career?
The Washington Post;  November 14, 1993 ;     700+ words ...For more than a decade, Edward J. Rollins has been a fixture in American politics...verbal jujitsu is a ticket to stardom, Rollins talked too much. "The guy is a friend...cliff for a few weeks is unbelievable." Rollins, 50, is the victim of a self-inflicted...

Article: GOP consultant Ed Rollins comes back with N.J. win
The Boston Globe;  November 9, 1993 ;     700+ words ......BROOK, N.J. -- Republican consultant Ed Rollins, all but ostracized by his party when...Whitman win the governor's race last week. Rollins, 50, whose previous exploits earned him...bum by tiny margins in this business," Rollins said in an interview. In this case, his...

Article: 'Tree' growing into his role with Mystics; Rollins learning on the job while attempting to turn season around.(SPORTS)
The Washington Times;  June 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Medina, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Wayne Tree Rollins was playing with his dog by the pool at...American Basketball Association franchise, Rollins was ready to relax. But when Richie Adubato...sidelines during the 1996-97 season, asked Rollins to join him on the Washington Mystics...

Article: Searching for himself, after lost season; Rollins, just a .245 hitter in 2002, seeks to regain his past form
Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  April 5, 2003 ;     643 words ...PHILADELPHIA -- Kindly forgive Jimmy Rollins for not being filled with the sense of...ripped down, that's something different," Rollins said Friday, before he and the Phils turned...rivals from Pittsburgh by a resounding 9-1. Rollins will proudly tell you that his favorite...

Article: Getting Off to a Late Jump; Hoyas' Rollins Is Soaring as a 5th-Year Grad Student
The Washington Post;  May 3, 2002 ;     567 words ...Josh Rollins didn't discover track and field until...late to hope for a college scholarship. Rollins, though, was reluctant to give up the...Gagliano apparently spotted potential in Rollins, who was the Maryland state champion in...

Article: SONNY ROLLINS
The Village Voice;  August 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ......denotes obscured text omitted.) Sonny Rollins's best album in nearly three decades may be the healing force of the universe SONNY ROLLINS Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert Milestone...pronto), but during a phoner in 1992 Sonny Rollins asked if I could recommend a good young...

Article: STRAIGHT MAN ROLLINS' STAND UP IS COUNTED
Evening News - Scotland;  November 25, 1999 ;     493 words ...COMEDY HENRY ROLLINS QUEEN'S HALL **** IT was difficult to...stand up comedy from a true polymath. Rollins defies being pigeonholed as a talent...he delivers his finely hewn material. Rollins is also surprisingly conventional in his...

Article: Rumors of His Death ...; A Year After He Was Counted Out, Rollins Is Back in the Political Fight
The Washington Post;  October 10, 1994 ;     700+ words ...Ed Rollins is back from the dead. Again. The Washington...a stain he would not be able to erase. Rollins boasted - then recanted - that he paid...client, Republican Christine Todd Whitman. Rollins apologized for "fabricating events," but...