In one corner, T. J. Cloutier, author of "Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold'em: On the Road to the World Series of Poker," miraculously turned $600 into $10,000 in 15 minutes, winning four hands in a row where he pushed all his chips into the pot, risking his seat.
A "Lord of the Flies" with concrete political content, "Time on My Hands" won two Italian book prizes and was a finalist for others.
Storey, who was was born without a left hand, won two gold medals in swimming as a 14-year-old at the 1992 Paralympics and will now concentrate on a possible five cycling events at the Paralympic Games.
Manchester's Storey, who was was born without a left hand, won two gold medals in swimming as a 14-year-old at the 1992 Paralympics, and has since gone on to collect five swimming gold medals and two in cycling.
Barcelona, on the other hand, had won two of their five European Cup finals – they wore orange for their win over Sampdoria in 1992 but wore their usual blue and red stripes for their most recent win in 2006 against Arsenal.
And I won three of the four hands".
Phelps, on the other hand, won eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, then won another four at London in 2012.
But Italy, with Parisse once again a real threat with ball in hand, won three quick penalties of their own.
But the pain was all worth it tonight, as Michael Smith, a Ph.D. student in entomology at Cornell University won one of several awards handed out at Harvard University's Sanders Theater as part of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes.
