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...Mountain closed to 21-18 with six points from Steve McMahon but Marty Healy came off the bench and made his presence felt. He swiped the ball from a bewildered Jim Clement, who bowled Healy over under the hoop. He sunk his free throws and laid in two more points on a fast break next time down the floor...
...CBOA presents the prestigious Samuel Schoenfeld award to the college coach who displays the greatest sportsmanship on the bench, so that officials are conscious of coaches' demeanors...
Both Diehl and Hannon stress that college coaches are under the gun every time their team takes to the floor, so any sympathy is misplaced. "You have to keep in mind that there's a coach on the other side of the bench and it's his bread and butter too," Diehl says. Both profess immunity to the hostile bantering of coaches. "You just can't worry that the guy on the other end of the bench doesn't like your work," Hannon says. "A certain few coaches are going to bother everyone." Diehl ribs coaches who huddle their charges...
...exactly is a public figure? The high bench has recently taken a narrow view of the definition, and last week, it did so again. In 1967 Millionaire Russell A. Firestone Jr., now 49, finally won a Florida divorce from his third wife, Mary Alice Firestone, now 40, after a much publicized trial that went on intermittently for 17 months. TIME reported in MILESTONES that his divorce had been granted on grounds of "extreme cruelty and adultery." But while the judge's decision did allude to claims of extramarital escapades by both partners, he did not clearly identify the grounds...
...hockey is characterized by superb coaching and an aggressive winning attitude. "That Cleary is the hungriest bastard I've ever seen," Hughes says. "He wants to win so bad he'd get out there himself if he could." Speedster Purdy adds, "All three coaches are super. They won't bench you for one mistake, but help you and give you confidence...