Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more depth, better shooting and ball-handling than last year," claims McLaughlin, always the master salesman. But whether or not he can peddle an untested, inexperienced product remains to be seen...
Curry, a good ball-handling guard forward, and Wendy Carle, a sharp-shooting forward, each averaged over 11 points a game last season, and can be expected to provide plenty of scoring punch...
...princely parties go, it was rather informal. "Tiaras will not be worn," stated the invitations to the Prince of Wales' 30th birthday ball at Buckingham Palace. As 350 well-connected guests looked on, Prince Charles danced expertly with the members of his favorite pop group, the Three Degrees. His Highness, of course, was inundated with gifts. Among the most unusual was a front-page column devoted to Charles in the London Sunday Times. Because the prince had once complained that newspapers tend to dwell on things that go wrong, the Times printed nothing but the week's good...
...Bennett installed a "Big Ben" play -for desperate situations when the clock was running out. With 19 seconds to go against New Orleans last week, Quarterback Steve Bartkowski called Big Ben. Three receivers rushed downfield, dogged by a battalion of defensive backs. Bartkowski lofted the ball, and what looked like four dozen arms groped for it. Atlanta's Wallace Francis tipped it to Teammate Alfred Jackson for the winining touchdown. Afterward Beninett told stunned sportswriters: "We work on that play in practice. We just bat the ball around until somebody catches it." He added, "I'm being serious...
Running the offenses are young quarterbacks who are not afraid of carrying the ball themselves. The league that once considered Fran Tarkenton a heretic for deserting his protective pocket of blockers now boasts quarterbacks who routinely gallop upfield. New England's Steve Grogan fancies the end run; Baltimore's Jones likes it up the middle...