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While it's highly unlikely that two guys from Alaska should end up in the starting backcourt for a Division I basketball team, Santa Clara coach Dick Davey is happy those long odds were in his favor when he recruited Kyle Bailey and Doron Perkins.

Since the average NFL pass attempt yields 6 yards, all the Titans had to do was play straight defense -- the odds favored a stop.

WHETHER or not it was syphilis that drove Schumann mad, as musicologists have long argued, he was always a bit odd.

The effect is scattered at times, yet oddly soothing, even as Roseman goes head-to-head with tenor saxophonist Chris Potter, his mate from the Holland band.

It was a performance that will come back to haunt him: There may have been the odd person who did not get the right- sized pair of boots.

There may have been the odd soldier who one day did not get his lunchtime ration pack.

"Two oddly similar substances, come to think of it -- and both of them hell on your children."He wanders from London to Europe; he enjoys a variety of casual conversations and takes odd jobs—biographer’s assistant, “picker” at the door of a club in Vienna, kept man of an American heiress outside Perugia.

"The engagement he accepted to play in, a theater orchestra in Great Falls in the winter of 1890, seems an odd choice," Twemlow writes.

There are odd pronunciations: is it now Australian English to pronounce schedule as "skedule" and the last letter in the alphabet as "zee"?These have all reached a point where they are worthy of disputation.

Carousel contains one of the oddest subplots in the history of gaming.

My favorite game involved listening to a Vivaldi piece and then selecting the matching melody from a collection of oddly arranged Vivaldi tunes.

He played Harry Fielding, a secret-service odd-job man who listened to jazz, ate airline meals ("I've got a friend at Heathrow"), and lived alone.

In the first 20 pages, the 17-year-old narrator Brendan Kane flees the rural confines of his parents’ New England farm, finds work in a saloon in a drunken port town, signs up for the Union Army during the Civil War, fights in several bloody battles, deserts, drifts back north, gets caught up in anti-draft riots in New York City and finds work on the Narthex, an odd-looking ship leaving port in a few days for an unnamed destination for an undisclosed amount of time.

For instance, a mission of a Pentecostal denomination at odds with Assemblies of God in the United States must register with the Assemblies of God counterpart in Egypt in order to exist.

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