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Campbell pushed through new rules calling for fines and automatic ejection of the first player to leave the bench for a brawl, as well as any third player who joins a two-man fight-pointedly omitting further penalties for the first two players who start swinging. "We're not against fighting," explains Campbell, a former Rhodes scholar and N.H.L. referee. "It's part of the game. But we are not going to tolerate the senseless spectacle of disorder that tends to turn a game into a farce...
...Campaigners. Once, it was assumed that a young quarterback had to spend several years warming the bench before he could even begin to master the complexities of the pro game. No more. Staubach and Griese, leading the top teams in each league into the biggest game of the year, symbolize a changing of the guard-the triumph of youthful field generals over veteran campaigners...
Flat, sloppy performances against lesser teams on the road appeared to be only a bad memory from the past under Harvard's agressive rookie coach, Billy Cleary. But last Saturday night in Durham, New Hampshire, as Cleary growled on the bench, his players threw away their number one position in the ECAC, collapsing to U.N.H., 4-3 in overtime...
...Justice delayed is justice denied," runs an old legal maxim. Former Nevada Judge Clifford Jones, 59, might be inclined to disagree. For him, it seems that the slower the law moves, the better. Having long since stepped down from the bench to serve a couple of terms as Nevada's Lieutenant Governor, "Big Juice," as he is known, now operates as a big-time gambler. This week, beating all the odds, he will celebrate the sixth anniversary of his indictment for perjury in the Bobby Baker payoff case. Baker, who was indicted along with Jones...
...just stopped doing things in the second half," Harrison said. "We could have blown the game open in the first half, or at least gone off the floor with a lead. We're not hitting, and we're not getting an awful lot out of the bench, either...