Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...record, quite simply, is astonishing: 595 wins and just 84 losses during a 22-year career and 16 conference championships in the past 18 years. This season's undefeated team is judged the best high school five in the country by Basketball Weekly, the Bible of the round-ball business. But for all the glory and the shelves full of trophies, Coach Morgan Wootten of De Matha High School in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., is proudest of another, more remarkable accomplishment: for the past 17 years, every senior on his roster, star and sub alike, has received...
...satisfying thing about the Celts' play of the last few months is a visible change in attitude. Although the club has played only .500 ball since he took over in November, new Celtics coach and former Harvard hoop mentor Tom Sanders has wrought small miracles with the hustle and determination of that squad...
...winter golfer also requires a special ball to combat the elements. At the Chili Open, contestants were provided with balls which they spray painted black, green, red, or yellow...
...Open this year, an orange golf ball was conspicuous by its presence. This year's Open was also noteworthy for the USGA's decision to artificially stimulate the growth of the rough by liberally applying a substance known as gibberellic acid...
...coating of gibberellic acid is by no means the first attempt at chemical golf. In 1928 Samuel J. Bens of New York City took out patent #1,664,397 on a golf ball "with chemical pockets dotting the outer skin." When the ball impacted the pockets burst, releasing a miasma of ammonium chloride. This simple method of chemical detection would definitely be a boon to the golfer traipsing his way through a snow bank in search of the elusive pill...