Word: coaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alumnus what the biggest team on campus is, and the most common response will be The Team, the football team. Two years ago, Coach Joe "Multiflex" Restic's squad captured the Ivy League Title with a 14-10 win over Yale in The Game on the last weekend of the season...
...soccer team will probably ride as high as oft-injured star forward Derek Mills and its untested freshman goalies can play. But once again, Coach Mike Getman's team should be nationally-ranked...
...newspapers run whores' phone numbers?" Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight would like to know. But he is an excitable character. "They run odds and point spreads on all the games. Is betting on basketball, football or baseball less illegal than prostitution?" It is, judging from the easy patter heard at every corner of sports. Make that every corner of society...
Doug Moe, the flamboyant coach of the Denver Nuggets, got to thinking a few weeks ago that pro basketball shouldn't let Kareem Abdul-Jabbar slip into retirement without somebody standing up and saying what a "jerk" the Laker center had been "his whole life." Abdul-Jabbar let it go, but the obvious rejoinder, if he remembered the headlines of 1961, was to say at least he never accepted carfare from a fixer for listening to the pitch. That was Moe's only confessed involvement in a point-shaving mess at the University of North Carolina, but it was enough...
...read gambling between the lines of a lot of my hate mail," says Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson. Bill Walsh of the San Francisco 49ers speaks of "those low, throaty, ominous" boos when the home football team sits on a small lead, the point spread be damned. "I think there's an element of it everywhere," Bobby Knight says. "I think there are coaches who bet. I think there are referees who bet. I think there are plenty of sportswriters...