Word: backups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest question for Harvard this weekend has been at starting quarterback. Despite energizing the Crimson offense by completing 10-of-16 passes for 98 yards and a touchdown in the second half, junior Brad Wilford will probably remain the backup quarterback, according to two offensive players...
Until he can right himself, Linden, theunequivocal starter for Harvard over the past twoseasons, may be in jeopardy of losing his job.While Wilford has been a career backup forHarvard, Murphy may want to see if the spark hebrought to the team can continue to ignite...
Madden says the long learning curve explains why so many grayhairs who should be regaling bowling buddies with stories about the good old days are still putting on helmets. The league will have three quarterbacks in their 40s as of next week, when Tennessee backup Dave Krieg enters middle age. Seattle Seahawks starter Warren Moon is 41, and Atlanta Falcons backup Steve DeBerg, at 44, is the age of Manning and Leaf combined. Oakland Raider backup Wade Wilson is 39; Denver Bronco John Elway, 38; and Minnesota's Randall Cunningham, 35, came out of retirement two years ago and threw...
...band. Nothing extraordinary is done here in the way of instrumentation, and most songs are similar in their construction and execution--verse, verse, bridge, verse. "Extra Pale" is a brief flash of distinction in the obscurity created by so many homophonic songs with its abrupt pauses and nicely-incorporated backup vocals. Those who might be tired of "Iris" will welcome its mandolin and violins to break up the thickness of guitar, bass and drums characterizing the rest of this album. The strangest quality of the music of Dizzy Up the Girl, however, is just how darn upbeat it is. Most...
Surrounding the kelp is a dense and delicate garden of tentacled plants that sway in unison, like backup singers. Pink, orange, rose, green, lavender. Plants with Einstein's hair, plants with Don King's and Phyllis Diller's--all kept graceful by the water. The garden is vertical as well as horizontal. On its floor sea stars crawl on their bellies like fat recruits in basic training. Above them swim the gulping bells of the jellies. In the intertidal zone limpets and other mollusks graze on algae in the rocks. Cancer crabs attack hermit crabs. An anemone divides to reproduce...