Word: balled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called "30-pull" in the San Francisco 49er playbook. The quarterback spins and fakes to the fullback who is following a pulling guard and tackle. But the ball is handed to O.J. Simpson, who takes it up the middle. But there was a difference last week as the 49ers called 30-pull late in their season finale with Atlanta: Simpson was carrying the ball for the last time after eleven years of professional football and a thick sheaf of records: most yardage in a single season; most career 200-plus-yard games (six); most consecutive 100-plus-yard games (seven...
Looking forward to spending another Christmas in the city she loved, E.J. made door wreaths for some of the houses in her neighborhood and helped put up the decorations for the city's premier holiday party, the Candlelight Ball...
...four decades terrified opponents and electrified fans with his artistry on the mound, is about to get the TV-movie treatment. In Don't Look Back, an ABC film to be aired next year, Lou Gossett Jr., will portray Hall of Famer Paige. Gossett, 42, who played sandlot ball in Brooklyn with a lefty named Sandy Koufax, is thrilled to be portraying Paige, the man who did not believe in looking back, because, as he explained in a phrase that has entered the language, "someone may be gaining...
...fire shattered the dawn silence. The fusillade from the white van lasted for 30 seconds-"a lifetime," said one survivor-and when it was over two U.S. sailors lay dead and ten others, including all of the women, were wounded. The dead were Petty Officer 1st Class John R. Ball, 29, of Madison, Wis., and Radioman 3rd Class Emil E. White, 20, of Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, who was driving...
...experience, credentials and brains to be the director of the production, but she refuses to keep her performers in line. The youngsters needed Curry during their opening tour--needed her to drive and shoot more from the outside when no one else seemed capable of holding the ball, let alone put it through the hoop...