Agents visited them, and made enquiries, but the family heard nothing more from the agency until this week, when they got the fateful knock on the door.

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One February day in the mid-1990s, Mr. Tombari and his wife, then living in California, got a knock on the door from a friend.

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Yale got the last at-large bid only after Notre Dame beat Michigan to knock the Wolverines from that slot.

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Phelps finally made Wigan's early pressure pay when he got on the end of Sam Tomkins' kick-through, and only the faintest of finger-tip knock-ons by Richards prevented Amos Roberts adding to that score when he got on the end of Thomas Leuluai's high ball.

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Once the NBA's scoring leader got in a rhythm, not even one of the league's best defenses could knock him out of it.

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Paul Warwick got closest to breaching the try-line but his sniping run on the left was ended by a knock on, forced by a Jerry Collins tackle.

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