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Players like former Iowa footballer Ronnie Harmon, now a pro with the Buffalo Bills, told of signing surreptitiously with Walters and Bloom and getting thousands in "loans," meanwhile receiving college scholarship money and taking such courses as bowling, billiards and watercolor painting. The agents used links to organized crime to keep their clients in line. The Chicago Bears' Maurice Douglass testified that when he tried to get out of his contract while a senior at the University of Kentucky, Bloom threatened to have somebody break his legs. The verdict, suggested U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas, sent a different but equally tough...
Phillips, who caught 36 passes for 597 yards last fall despite battling nagging injuries, has tried out with several teams, including the Pittsburgh Steelers, the New York Jets, the New England Patriots and the Buffalo Bills...
...What stalls more than a '78 Monte Carlo riding through Buffalo in the middle of January...
...brings back images of the great buffalo massacres of the 19th century. Since last October, Montana hunters have gunned down a record number of bison that have been roaming outside the bounds of fire-ravaged Yellowstone National Park, foraging on neighboring ranch and forest land. The state legislature made bison a big-game animal again in 1985, after game wardens had had to shoot 88 stray bison and hunters complained that the privilege should have been theirs...
Betty Mensh and Alan Freeman, Professors of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo, wrote in the recent issue of Tikkun, "This ("We are not a minority') attitude is just another version of the assimilationist ploy that has been all too fateful for the Jews in the past...the vice of assimilation is that it is always superficial and fragile. Wouldn't it be better to abandon such a foolish enterprise, to give up on false security in order to regain dignity and self-respect...