Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University of Georgia and Jan H. Kemp, an assistant professor in the school's remedial-studies program. More than four years ago Kemp, then 32, complained that nine football players, all with substandard grades, were allowed to pass, allegedly so that they could play in the 1982 Sugar Bowl. After speaking out against this and other examples of classroom cosseting of star jocks with fourth-string grades, she was demoted and then fired by the university in 1983. In deep despair, she twice attempted suicide...
...woof?" The Chicago linebacker deliberated and replied, "More like a woof." On the Patriots' side, Runner Tony Collins was awash in sociological queries about his 15 siblings. Under pressure, he managed to name all eight brothers and six of seven sisters. Several of the Super Bowl's 2,500 journalists strayed off to plumb local angles. Guido Dagatta of Milan's Italia Uno TV network had an interest in New England Assistant Coach Dante Scarnecchia. "Milan?" mused Scarnecchia congenially. "Is that the capital of Italy?" Smoke began to come off Dagatta. "No, the capital is Rome. Maybe you have heard...
Finally the Super Bowl was played, and once again it was the worst football game of the season, won by Chicago, 46-10. Retreating practically from the opening whistle, the Patriots fled the first half with negative yardage both in the air and on the ground. Starting Quarterback Tony Eason left the fray uninjured in the second quarter following no completions. By the finish, Collins led all New England rushers with 4 yds. Craig James, who had overrun the Miami Dolphins for the conference championship, gained 3 ft. On a goalline galumph, rotund Rookie William ("Refrigerator") Perry beat the bookies...
...Globe would sit on the story until the season's end. "There are at least five players we know who have a serious problem," Berry confirmed, "and five to seven more whom we suspect very strongly." At a team meeting in New Orleans the morning after the Super Bowl, the players read resignation into Berry's threat that he would "not go through another year" of the cocaine miseries that had vexed him all season. Overwhelmingly they voted to accept testing. "The worst possible scenario would be losing Raymond," said Guard Ron Wooten, one of the Patriots' union leaders...
That night, temperatures fell to an unseasonable 27 degrees , but the wind dwindled to 9 m.p.h. On Tuesday, Jan. 28, the clear morning sky formed what glider pilots fondly call "a blue bowl." Even before Challenger's crew, wearing gloves against the chill, crossed the access arm to take their assigned places, NASA's "ice team" had inspected the shuttle and its towering gantry. They decided that there was no danger of any icicles breaking away on lift-off and harming the heat-shield tiles. Just 20 minutes before the scheduled lift-off, they made another check. A Rockwell engineer...