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...boast what is perhaps the most intimidating day-to-day lineup in the majors. Eight years ago, four players on the 1977 Red Son, drove in a 100 or more runs...

Author: By Nick Wurf and David L. Yermack, S | Title: The 1985 Sports Cube Baseball Quiz | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

Both squads also boast freshmen who have set new rookie goal scoring records but are better known for their famous fathers...

Author: By Nick Wurf, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen to Face UMD Tonight in NCAAs | 3/22/1985 | See Source »

...boast or anything, but I know in my heart that Harvard will come back and win it. After all, the squad has pulled off third-period heroics before: the last-minute overtime-forcing goal at Colgate, the three-goal game-tying rally at Boston College...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: Might Have Been | 2/5/1985 | See Source »

...proved by The Cosby Show, the new season's biggest hit. Enter Sara, a very adult sitcom about a single lawyer (Geena Davis) trying to make it on her own in San Francisco. The show is being touted as 1985's answer to the Mary Tyler Moore Show, a boast that can most charitably be described as optimistic. Davis, a tall brunet with an annoying habit of talking into her chest, has little of Mary's tough-but- vulnerable charm, and the gag lines would have embarrassed the crowd at WJM- TV. (A friend, chiding Sara for taking low-paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Autumn Goofs, Winter Repairs | 1/21/1985 | See Source »

...even the ECAC championship team two years ago could boast such an impressive mark. That squad finished up the first month of the year...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Keeping Up With RPI | 1/16/1985 | See Source »

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