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Linebackers: A tackling factory. Senior Paul Sorensen, a first team Academic All-American last year, leads the Green with 47 tackles. Co-Captain Paul Mitchell is second in hits with 42. The other linebackers in the Green's Multiple Base 50 defense are Jay Swett and Jeff Blackburn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scouting Report | 10/15/1988 | See Source »

...There's an old saying that we used to have that the cost of a college education was in line as long as it did not cost more than a standard Chevrolet," says John Blackburn, the director of the American Association of University Administrators (AAUA...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Paying the Piper: Why Tuition is Going Up | 10/12/1988 | See Source »

...just give faculty an inflationary increase then you would stay with inflation, but if you give them a meritory increase then you must exceed inflation," Blackburn said...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Paying the Piper: Why Tuition is Going Up | 10/12/1988 | See Source »

...posed as a florist's messenger, delivering roses to Megan Marshack, the staffer who had been with Nelson Rockefeller when he died and was holed up in her apartment trying to avoid the press. "I nearly had to buy the truck to get the setup right," he recalls. John Blackburn, an American who at one time was a rewrite man for the tabs, agrees that the "Brits have guts. They do things Americans wouldn't do, like taking a picture off a mantelpiece when there's been a death in the family." But Hogan defends his kind: "Listen, mate. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: The Rogues of Tabloid Valley | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...over Tyson's walls at the Ocean Club hotel are the old sepia photographs out of which he has stepped, going back to Mike Donovan, Jack Blackburn and Joe Jeannette, who in 1909 fought a 49-rounder that featured 38 knockdowns. Louis, Rocky Marciano and Ali are there, but Jack Johnson, Jim Jeffries and Stanley Ketchel are more prominent. (John Lardner told Ketchel's 1910 fate in a pretty good sentence: "Stanley Ketchel was 24 years old when he was fatally shot in the back by the common-law husband of the lady who was cooking his breakfast.") The repeaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing's Allure | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

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