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...flocked to the turnstiles. In their play-off game against the Fort Lauderdale Strikers last month at Giants Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands, for example, the Cosmos drew a whopping 77,691. The New York team averaged 34,142 for its 13 home games this season, and the also-ran Minnesota Kicks drew an amazing 32,771 per contest...
Invigorated by Silverman's frenzied aggressiveness and unorthodox tactics, ABC?television's perennial also-ran in ratings, revenues and prestige?has all but obliterated its competitors in evening prime time. Last spring, at the end of the 1976-77 season, the network had the nation's four top-rated shows and seven of the top ten. CBS, which had been the premier network since television came of age in the '50s, managed to squeeze only two into the top ten. NBC, the granddaddy of all the networks, was able to place only one on those elevated rungs...
Pauley, the talk went, just might have been holding out for more money after she heard what NBC last week offered Kelly Lange, the barmy blonde weather girl at the network's Los Angeles station and an also-ran for the Today job. What actually happened, however, was that NBC officials went into a lather when they learned that Lange was being lured by the ABC body-snatchers who had stolen Walters from them. The network's brass hurriedly rushed into prolonged negotiations and promised to double Lange's salary, to $200,000, and give...
Harvard pulled itself together, and went on to a crushing 24-10 victory over the Big Green. The triumph makes Harvard the only undefeated, untied team in the Ivy League, at 3-0 and pushes Dartmouth back into also-ran status with a 1-1-1 mark...
...Bruins scored both goals in the first 12 minutes of the contest and with the help of goalkeeper Mike Hampden, hung on for the crucial victory. The Big Red now join the rest of the league in the also-ran department...