Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston's Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, 2-0, allowed four hits until he gave up a walk and a single to Jim Gantner with two out in the seventh...
Boston (78-54, AL East, fifth): Lee Smith (36 saves) could be the savior of the once non-existent Boston bullpen. The Sox have strong starters in Roger Clemens, Oil Can Boyd and Bruce Hurst. Also, new faces such as Mike Greenwell (.328, 19 HR, 89 RBI), Ellis Burks (20 HR) and Sam Horn (14 HR in 46 games) can turn Fenway into a funhouse this summer. Best player: Wade Boggs...
...there is an office pool on that ultimate test of valor and gristle, the Olympic men's downhill ski race at Mount Allan, near Calgary. You throw in your dollar, reach into the hat, and pull out the name of Switzerland's Peter Muller, say, or Canada's Rob Boyd. Congratulations! These are hairy-eared mountain men, eaters of nails, sleepers on plank floors, and you are looking fairly good to win a hatful of dollars. Muller, at 30 still the toughest downhill specialist since Austria's Franz Klammer, won the pre-Olympic downhill trial at Mount Allan last season...
Pirmin, after his two World Cup downhill wins, looks good in the downhill, with Teammate Muller or Canada's Boyd as second choice. That leaves the GS, super-G and combined. Give Pirmin one gold and a silver and Girardelli, if he recovers from a bruising fall in late January, at least one medal. Give them all fat endorsements, glossy cars and TV contracts. Give the Larchenhof a try in 30 years; the tall fellow with the leather knickers, the pipe and the pointy nose, they say, still skis fairly well...
EDITORIAL: Laurie M. Grossman '89 of Quincy House and St. Louis Park, Minnesota, Editorial Chairman; John C. Yoo '89 of Winthrop House and Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, Deputy Editorial Chairman; Gary L. Susman '89 of Currier House and Denver, Colorado, Arts/Magazine Editor, Bentley Boyd '89 of Leverett House and Brookings, South Dakota, Associate Editorial Chairman...