Word: benching
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Revell thought he had to move quickly. On Aug. 6, four days before the cowboy-agent appeared, Oberwetter was visited by Barnes, who identified himself as "Howard Parsons" and insisted that the two of them discuss the matter on a bench outdoors. Oberwetter says he refused to accept the illegal materials. What Oberwetter did not know was that the encounter was being videotaped, allegedly by a BBC correspondent named David Taylor. The video was turned over to the FBI, but without any audio, it proved nothing. Nevertheless, agents heard rumors that Taylor was preparing to air or distribute the video...
Hermsdorf struggled last season while riding the bench during the final year of the Chuckie Hughes and Allain Roy tandem. But in the exhibition match, the Kirkland House resident was remarkably confident and shutout the Tigers, turning away nine shots during his 20-minute stint...
...first crowd-pleaser came at the end of the first period, when he nearly sent Dalhousie defender Brian MacDonald over the boards into the Harvard bench. Later in the match, Cohagan knocked defender James Bugden silly with an open-ice bodyslam...
Garcia's 1992 season has been especially rough because a knee injury kept her off the court for a total of four weeks. Garcia's injury has kept her on the bench for more than half of this season's games...
...rich but checkered history of Stanford football, sporting supplicants who have placed their fannies on Stanford Stadium's wooden-bench seats in prayerful anticipation of just such an event have spent more than their share of New Year's days sorely disappointed. There have been moments of brilliance, of course. On occasion, there have even been seasons of considerable distinction. But the chroniclers of sport have always preferred to measure excellence in terms of eras. Eras have been in short supply recently at Stanford. So too have been coaching dynasties. There's certainly been nothing like the dynasty Bill Walsh...