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...college sports to go on there unreported. Throughout the Final Four, whistles were blowing all over Texas about some sin or other of the Longhorns. Crum, 49, who eventually rejected an offer to return to UCLA, is three seasons into a ten-year agreement calling for a $1 million bonus if he completes the contract unencumbered by N.C.A.A. probation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kentucky's No. 1 Team | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Some softball fans may recall last year's debut of the "place a runner on second base at the start of every extra inning" rule. In other words, starting in the eighth inning, the team at bat begins each frame with a bonus runner sitting on second--a plan designed to facilitate scoring and shorten lengthy deadlocks...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Talon-ted Eagles Edge Batswomen in Nine | 4/9/1986 | See Source »

...Gooden doesn't brag much. "Only in the middle of 1946," Feller thinks back, "did I ever try to strike everybody out. I had a chance for the single-season strikeout record, a situation brought to my attention by General Mills (Wheaties) in the form of a $5,000 bonus. I got it too." He has been wondering if the strikeout hasn't been devalued since then. "Not striking out used to be a moral victory. There just isn't as much stigma to swinging and missing anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dr. K Is King of the Hill | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...Loan in Charlotte automatically enter a drawing for a free round-trip Piedmont Airlines ticket, which can be used on any of the routes the carrier flies, from Miami to San Francisco. New York City's Dollar Dry Dock Savings Bank is offering new IRA depositors an immediate cash bonus of up to $30. The First National Bank of Chicago has set up an IRA center that will be open on the Saturday before the deadline and until midnight on April 15. To handle the rush, senior executives will be tapped to wait on customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wild About IRAs | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...bounce to 7.7%. That seems a sure bet with either team, since Kentucky was ranked No. 5 and Louisville No. 13 in the latest Associated Press poll. For , each game the team wins, another .1 percentage point is added to the rate, and a national championship brings a .2 bonus. The maximum possible rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banks: Sink a Shot for Old Cd | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

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