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McCartney and his family moved in 1982 to Boulder, where he transformed the hapless Buffaloes of the University of Colorado. First he had to struggle through some miserable losing seasons (including a 1-10 record in 1984) and criticism that he favored Christian players over less devout teammates. Gradually, though, McCartney put together a winning streak, leading to a spectacular 1989 season that earned him five national Coach of the Year honors and culminated in beating Notre Dame at the Orange Bowl in 1991. In that year he signed a dream 15-year contract with Colorado, worth...
...life as the father of four children suffered as he pursued football. In 1989 his only daughter, 20-year-old Kristyn, became the out-of-wedlock mother to the child of Colorado football star Sal Aunese, a notorious campus playboy. (In 1993 she gave birth to a son fathered by another of McCartney's varsity players.) Meanwhile, his wife Lyndi drifted into depression as her children grew up and moved out and her husband remained on the road...
...moon was formed, but increasingly they have come to suspect it was born in violence, blasted away from Earth by a collision with a planet-like object at least as big as Mars. To test this theory, a research team from Tokyo University and the University of Colorado, Boulder, developed a computer program that would simulate such a cosmic crack-up and let the scientists watch it play out. As the investigators predicted, the planet--roughly half the size of Earth--was annihilated by the collision, surrounding Earth with a Saturnesque ring of rubble that coalesced into a sphere...
...strongest suspicion, though, is that Hunter is partial not so much to the Ramseys as to their lawyers. Boulder, for all its academic eminence as the site of a University of Colorado campus and its reputation as a refuge for dropouts, is very much a small town where "all the lawyers are friends," says a retired judge. The Ramseys' legal team is headed by Hal Haddon--and if Hunter is a midsize fish in Colorado Democratic politics, Haddon is a whale. He was a close adviser to former Senator Gary Hart and a strong ally of Governor Roy Romer...
Chief of detectives John Eller is "the seed" of the conflict between the police and Hunter's office, according to the police source. Eller once even voiced suspicion that the D.A.'s office had tampered with police computers; the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) looked into the matter and dismissed it. No one questions that Eller is driving the investigation zealously, but there are whispers that he has become overwrought and erratic. Says a critic who knows him well: "He doesn't listen to the D.A.'s office. When they tell him you need more physical evidence or more searches...