Word: coached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...else could you explain why so few Blacks hold positions of authority in sports, both on and off the field? Why are there so few Black quarterbacks and catchers? Why has there never been a Black head coach in the NFL? And why, until the recent purchase of the Denver Nuggets, had there never been a Black-owned major league franchise in any sport, despite the numbers of wealthy Blacks seeking to buy a team...
...cast is that it rarely melds into a stylistically consistent ensemble. Big-name actors tend to resist direction or, if willing to cooperate, prove unable: they lack stage training and technique for the classics or succumb to the heebie-jeebies of stage fright. Director Harold Guskin, a noted acting coach, has coaxed his players into charm and clarity in telling myriad tales of mistaken identity, most of which turn on the interchangeability of gender. Mastrantonio lacks the requisite androgyny but is otherwise faultless. Woodard, one of four black leads chosen in admirably color-blind casting, excels at seductive banter...
...baseball, football and basketball games. During the football season, the New York Daily News publishes four regular and two rotating columnists who offer weekly advice on which pro and college games to bet; its columns bristle with ads touting betting services offering the same assistance. Asks Bobby Knight, basketball coach of Indiana University: "Why don't the newspapers run whores' phone numbers? Is betting on basketball, football or baseball less illegal than prostitution...
...away from Bright in Briggs Cage, the Harvard men's basketball team will be continuing its quest for its first-ever Ivy League title. Coach Peter Roby begins his fifth year at the helm of the University's most frustrating varsity squad. Each year is The Year. Finally, the Crimson will win the Ivy championship. Each year, Harvard watches the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament on television. television...
Emotions don't run quite as high in Foxboro, where the National Football League's New England Patriots play their home games in the fall. The Patriots have followed the style of Coach Raymond Berry in the last few seasons: bland, boring and beaten...