Word: ben
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Quote of the Week: "In a capitalist system, you always have the haves and have-nots. You live with it or go to Russia."--Southern Basketball Coach Ben Jobe on the NCAA Tournament...
...deep team this season," Harvard Coach Ben Cesare said. "We've got a good spread across the board and because of this, I think we're poised to have an excellent spring...
Move over, Ben Cartwright. Some rich new cattle barons have come to town. In the past year Japanese investors have developed an appetite for U.S. beef- producing properties, including ranches, feedlots and packinghouses. Zenchiku, a major Tokyo-based meat importer, bought the 80,000-acre Selkirk Ranch near Dillon, Mont., last October for $13 million. A company called Mt. Shasta Beef, formed by Japanese entrepreneur Masa Tanabe and three California cattlemen, spent $2.2 million in January to lay claim to a 6,000-acre ranch in Northern California's Siskiyou County...
When Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal for the 100-meter race at the Seoul Olympics for using illegal steroids, he claimed that someone had spiked his water bottle. That dubious explanation was torpedoed last week by Johnson's longtime coach, Charlie Francis, who told a government inquiry that the runner, along with up to a dozen other athletes at his Toronto club, had knowingly been taking performance-enhancing drugs since...
...Ben Johnson was apparently no exception to the rule. Francis said that in the fall of 1981 he explained to Johnson that anabolic steroids, artificial hormones that enhance the body's ability to grow muscle, marked the only path to international success in the explosive 100-meter dash. After some hesitation, said the coach, Johnson agreed to try the drugs...