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...Donie Wood (Arkansas) d. Mike Shyjan (HARVARD), 6-3, 6-2; 2. Mike Zimmerman (HARVARD) d. Cha Hoon lm (Arkansas), 6-3, 6-2; 3. Mark Leschly (HARVARD) d. J.P. Mieny (Arkansas), 6-4, 6-3; 4. Derek Brown (HARVARD) d. Garron Borkum (Arkansas), 4-6, 6-3, 6-3; 5. Albert Chang (HARVARD) d. Keith Burford (Arkansas), 6-2, 7-5; 6. John Tolmie (HARVARD) d. Robert Antoun (Arkansas...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Netmen Upset 15th-Ranked Arkansas At National Indoor Tournament, 5-1 | 2/22/1990 | See Source »

...only loss came at first singles, as sophomore Mike Shyjan dropped a straight-set match to Donie Wood, but Mike Zimmerman, Mark Leschly, Derek Brown, Albert Chang and John Tolmie swept the remaining singles matches to clinch the victory. Only Brown was stretched to straight sets, outlasting Arkansas' Garron Borkum, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. Harvard only dropped 43 games in the six matches...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Netmen Upset 15th-Ranked Arkansas At National Indoor Tournament, 5-1 | 2/22/1990 | See Source »

Whacker looked excited. "Come on down to the basement!" he yelled, flailing his arms about wildly. "If I don't get a Nobel for this, then those people aren't worth a soggy pouch of Borkum Riff...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: One Day At The p-3 Facility... | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...Chevy commercial was just dumb--there were others that were plain offensive. A Borkum-Riff pipe tobacco commercial showed a blonde guy stomping the snow from his boots, entering a house, taking off his coat, and being welcomed by a beautiful blonde woman who proceeds to stuff and light his pipe for him. The voiceover says something like: "In Sweden, a man has to take all the comfort he can get to make it through the winter. Borkum-Riff, a lusty smoke...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: ABC's Fall From Olympus | 2/10/1976 | See Source »

...Even Borkum-Riff's blatant sexism paled in comparison with that of Chris Schenkel, who ABC had announcing the figure skating and ice dancing events. Schenkel commented on the great Soviet skater Irina Rodnina: "Look at the ice shavings in her beautiful black hair." Or after the skating expert calls the skaters "Powerful! These people are powerhouses!", Schenkel says, "She's the cutest thing you'll see. Not too long ago, she was a tiny little thing, but now she's grown up and is a match for her partner...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: ABC's Fall From Olympus | 2/10/1976 | See Source »

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