Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Detroit's Isis Thomas (6 ft.) tried to beat up Chicago's Bill Cartwright (7 ft.). Thomas is out for three weeks with a injured wrist. Somewhere in Cleveland, people are celebrating...
BOSTON--Nick Esasky homered in his Boston debut and Wade Boggs keyed rallies with a pair of singles yesterday as the Red Sox won their home opener, 5-2, over Cleveland...
...Cleveland, coming off a three-game sweep of the New York Yankees, pulled to within 3-2 on Carter's homer, which snapped Boddicker's scoreless string against the Indians at 16 and two-thirds innings...
Kelly's story has a mythic quality: fairy godparents pop up at the right time, dark perils lead to happy endings. An old friend from Atlanta, model Pat Cleveland, ran into him on the street. She suggested Paris and, unasked, sent him a one-way ticket. The Warnaco deal had the same Kellyesque serendipity. Three years ago, Kelly was free-lancing while building his own label. "If we'd have sneezed, we'd have gone bankrupt," he remembers. Enter journalist Gloria Steinem on assignment to do a profile about Kelly for NBC's Today show. Steinem introduced Kelly to Warnaco...
Wayne Embry, general manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers, is a black former pro who knows the problem well: "Quite often, coming out of school, these kids don't know anything else but basketball. Someone's altered their test scores to get them into school, and once they're in, they're directed to take basket weaving and plays-and-games, or whatever the hell it is. Tell me what they're going to do in our society. I know quite often college coaches think they're doing these kids a favor. The reality is they're doing them a disservice...