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...course dampened by recent rains, the Harvard men’s golf team slipped to a disappointing 10th-place finish at the Mulekicker Fall Golf Classic. After last week’s promising start at the Dartmouth Invitational, the Crimson golfers found themselves outplayed by the likes of the champion, Central Connecticut, and the runner-up, Army...
...former Iowan schoolboy football star whose penchant for career ending hits was equaled only by his pathological desire for sex (which he sought from the lovely ladies of certain Glasgow neighborhoods), an NFL Europe veteran who’d played for the Chicago bears, a British sprinting champion and the best quarterback in Britain, whose 22-stone (308 pound) frame could not mask his awesome physical talent and acumen for the game...
...Suffolk Downs showcases solid, but not spectacular thoroughbred racing. The big event of the year is the Massachusetts Handicap—or Mass. Cap to those in the know—which runs in mid-June. Recently the track has managed to bring in some equine celebrities, including race champion Cigar...
...working-class family moved from inner Sydney to one of the nation's major experiments in public housing - the Green Valley estate on the city's southwestern fringe. The area was settled before basic services - sewerage, hospitals, child care, transport and leisure facilities - were established. The self-proclaimed champion of the urban sprawl was Labor leader Whitlam, federal member for Werriwa (1952-78). He put suburban issues into the mainstream of politics. "I was always interested in why Green Valley didn't have the sort of facilities that other parts of Sydney took for granted," Latham told biographer Craig McGregor...
...OLYMPIC basketball team was the first "NBA-stocked bunch not to win gold" [Sept. 6]. Next time, let the team that has last won the National Basketball Association title represent the U.S. in international competitions. Can you imagine the pride and the might with which the NBA champion Detroit Pistons would have performed in Athens? But instead of a well-coordinated team that knew how to control the ball and shoot well, we saw a hurriedly assembled group of NBA superstars who could not manage to play in a cohesive manner...