Word: benching
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...went. Exhausted, the starters finished almost every game, for even when McLaughlin went to his bench, he found freshman nerves and inexperience, not the skills he needed...
...Crimson exhausted from a 5-5 overtime tie at Cornell the night before, played poorly all evening and needed a Peter Follows goal with under a minute less and goalie Grant Blair on the bench--pulled for an extra skater--to force the period...
...main reasons Devin has had such success coming off the bench is that he has no complaints about sitting on the pine...
...even Wechsler admits that the "vacillating" of the court on the issue hurts the bench's image. Former Reagan Justice Department Lawyer Bruce Fein has a harsher assessment: "This reinforces the notion that this court is without a head." The Burger Court has long been pushed and pulled by an unpredictable, shifting center. During his 14 years on the court, Blackmun, 76, has voted with the court's conservatives on many criminal-justice issues but frequently sided with the liberals on other questions. Some observers see the San Antonio reversal as the latest assertion of independence by a Justice once...
...Pickens was a star guard on the Amarillo High basketball team. During the semifinal round of a state tournament, his shooting helped keep his team in the game, even though he and his teammates were much shorter than the opposition. At the last time-out, Pickens bounded onto a bench and exhorted, "Guys, I think we've got 'em! Just keep playing the way you have been!" Unfortunately for biographers, the final result was a one-point loss...