Word: aufrichtig
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more innocent time, Marvin Aufrichtig would stage what he called "the Hamster Olympics" at the family home in Brooklyn. Marv, an aspiring sportscaster, would do the play-by-play as his hamsters competed against one another in a series of events. Their names were Ambrose and Zachary...
Last week the hamster in the wheel was Marv Albert. The sportscaster had started it spinning, to be sure, but the wheel, further propelled by justice and journalism, picked up so much speed that the former Marvin Aufrichtig just had to get off. On Thursday afternoon, in a bizarre end to a bizarre trial at Virginia's Arlington County courthouse, Albert, 56, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of assault and battery in a case brought by a longtime lover. In the bargain, which prosecutors said had been offered to Albert before the trial began, the far more serious charge...
...were just Marvin Philip Aufrichtig, the name he was given 53 years ago, New York City and the sports world would not have been sent reeling last week. But because the divorced father of four charged with assaulting a woman and forcing her into a sex act in a Virginia hotel room last February is NBC's famous Yesss! man, Marv Albert, the city's tabloids and radio shows had a field day. NO! read the front page of the Daily News...