Word: boing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most prominent National Football League rookies -- Dallas Runner Herschel Walker and Buffalo Quarterback Jim Kelly -- have come from a kind of minor league, the dormant U.S.F.L. The preeminent college football player of 1985 -- Auburn's "Bo" Jackson -- has gone to baseball. If the football scouts are right about Jackson's being a "bigger and stronger O.J. Simpson," and the baseball scouts are right about his "Mantle-like speed and power" and "Clemente-like throwing arm," then both sports have been significantly affected by the small events of an Alabama childhood that led to this unlikely choice...
Dichotomies abound in Vincent Edward Jackson, 23, nicknamed Bo for the resemblance he once bore to a boar. As a boy, Jackson was a bully with a gentle streak. At Auburn, he seemed as apt to persevere with a separated shoulder as to demur with a tender hamstring. "You wouldn't call him a gung- ho practice player," Coach Pat Dye recalls fondly. "I'm sure it was like work to him, but it never looked that way. Baseball thinks Rickey Henderson is fast. They're going to find out what speed is. Speed, size, grace, courage. He had everything...
...audience devours Beehive like a three-foot hoagie. They may stand up and sing The Name Game ("Sarah, Sarah, bo barah, bonana fanna fo farah, fee fi mo marah . . . Sarah!"). They wallow in Lesley Gore's perky petulance ("It's my party and I'll cry if I want to") and sway to the Motown philosophizing of the Supremes ("Baby, baby, where did our love go?"). They thrill again to the eloquent plaint of the Shangri-Las ("Remember, walkin' in the sand") and the sly taunts of the Angels ("My boyfriend's back, he's gonna save my reputation...
...figure out precisely why. After all, the first half-hour is simply a reenactment of the TWA terrorist hijacking this past June. Having followed those events fairly closely, I didn't find the dramatization either surprising or suspenseful. When director Menahem Golan showed a clip of the pilot (Bo Svenson) being interviewed by reporters, he froze the footage to make certain that the audience would notice that this was the same image that had appeared on the covers of both Time and Newsweek during the actual hijacking...
Davis had three hits, including the game-winner off reliever Scott Garrelts (9-5) and drove in four runs. The Reds loaded the bases in the eighth on Dave Concepcion's single, a walk to Bo Diaz and a bunt single by Ron Oester...