Word: coached
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Saturday, October 14, Ithaca: Cornell Coach Jack Fouts over-sleeps and forgets to wake up his players. The Crimson plays the Big Red field hockey team. Jim Reidy notches a hat trick. Harvard 4, Cornell...
Saturday, October 28, the Stadium: "There's no way we're falling for the Crater trick," says Princeton Coach Steve Tosches before the game. The Tigers don't, but they do fall for the tie-their-shoelaces-together-while-they're not-looking gag. It works perfectly and Art McMahon streaks down the sideline for the winning touchdown. Harvard 29, Princeton...
...Seven Dwarfs." But by the early 1980s, while West Germany's Adidas remained No. 1 outside the U.S., fast- rising Nike dominated the American market. The company was started in 1972 by current chairman Philip Knight, 52, a University of Oregon graduate, and Bill Bowerman, 78, his former track coach, who used a waffle iron to make their first soles. (The now famous Swoosh trademark on the side of the shoes was designed by an art student for $35.) Nike's sales sprinted from $270 million in 1980 to $920 million in 1984. But the firm, named after the Greek...
...considered a bust. All the major manufacturers have hired celebrity pitchmen. Nike pays multitalented pro athlete Bo Jackson to sell its cross- trainer shoe, and Joan Benoit Samuelson to advertise its running line. L.A. Gear keeps retired Los Angeles Lakers star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on its payroll; his former coach Pat Riley is under contract with Reebok...
...Hoose saves his harshest criticism for the National Football League, that "kingdom of megafauna where clothesline tackles and forearm shivers bring back ancient truths." There have been only eight Black quarterbacks in NFL history to throw more than 25 passes, and the league has never had a Black head coach...