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...overall settlement bears the players' cleat marks. The compensation formula will seemingly have little effect on the owners' bidding wars, so the players should be able to maintain their bargaining power as free agents. Even so, they are slightly worse off than they were when the walkout began. Said Rusty Staub of the New York Mets: "It was a take-away strike. The players had nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boys of Summer Return | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...cold, and he's rubbing them between every play. That means he can't coordinate them well, and he'll end up jamming a finger or getting stepped on." True to prediction, Defensive Back Alan Johnson's right hand is raked by a cleat. At halftime, Verbruggen has to treat him for a bruise and deep scrape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: Trying to Make Football Injury-Free | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...this is not to say that Potysman will follow in the cleat-marks of Emper, but it's well known that Yale boasts a pair of trucks with sure hands at the ends in John Spagnola and Bob Krytyniak and that all 70 inches of Potysman will have a full day's work ahead of them tomorrow at the Yale Bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steve Potysman: A Little Big Man | 11/11/1977 | See Source »

Deja vu. What did I tell ya'. The Yanks and the Dodgers face to face, cleat to cleat, just like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cleat to Face | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...Namath and other athletes have painfully learned, the human knee was not designed by nature to withstand a twisting action (torque) when the leg is held rigid by a cleated shoe planted firmly in soft ground. To orthopedists nothing is more predictable than this "football knee." Houston's Dr. Bruce Cameron reasoned that while players must have cleats to ensure good traction, they need to be released from the fixed stance when they are hit by a block or tackled. So he designed shoes with a cleat plate that rotates in the middle of the sole. The player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Feb. 5, 1973 | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

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