Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LeTellier explained that the Olympic Committee chose four stadiums on the East and West coasts to host the preliminary games. The other three locations are Navy, Stanford, and the Rose Bowl...
...doing something we can never hope to do and our dependence on them is complete. Everyone, male or female, has kicked a ball around, shot a few hoops in gym class, or played in an office softball game, but few of the 71,000 people in the Yale Bowl Saturday have every played serious full-contact football. We can never hope to beat Yale personally, and are that much more bitter when we lose...
...season. Alumni donations hinge on the outcome of The Game and over $1.4 million was spent in New Haven last weekend on tickets alone. At larger schools with better teams and fewer scruples the business is even bigger. For a nationally ranked team, a successful season can mean a bowl game and more television appearances, both of which mean big money...
Gambling and football, on the other hand, are Siamese twins. Most newspapers in the country publish predictions and the latest betting line. Anyone who doesn't believe that games have been fixed is a fool. This year millions of dollars will be bet on the Super Bowl and major college bowl games; whenever there is that kind of money at stake people are going to be tempted to protect their investment. Last year two former Boston College basketball players were sent to jail for fixing games. If gamblers could buy a couple of nobodies on an insignificant team, they could...
...right, I saw a Yale undergrad slip, laughing, from the top of the Yale Bowl. He tumbled, head-over-heels, down the step grass incline, plummeting ever closer to the brick barrier that was the mantle of one portal...