Word: columbia
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With less than two minutes remaining in the game, the Harvard offense had a third-and-goal situation from the Columbia one yard line, but a delay of game penalty and an incomplete pass forced the Crimson to settle for a chip-shot field goal attempt...
...high snap from freshman deep-snapper Frank Volpe allowed 6'5" Columbia defensive end Marcellus Wiley to block the kick. But the Crimson special teams still had a chance to score. The Columbia player who recovered the block--junior defensive back Roy Hanks--took the ball on the five yard line and ran back into the endzone, trying to gain yardage by reversing his field. Several would-be Harvard tacklers had the opportunity to tackle Hanks for a safety, but each came up empty-handed as Hanks advanced the ball to the Columbia 27-yard line...
...Columbia's special teams, on the other hand, were superb...
Early last week, Mark Canton went to a screening of Jerry Maguire, an upcoming Tom Cruise vehicle about a sports agent, and started to think that life might get better. Yes, the chairman of Sony's film studios, which include Columbia and Tri-Star, had presided over a particularly dreadful summer. He had been excoriated for paying Jim Carrey $20 million for The Cable Guy, which faltered at the box office. And as his competitors feasted on the returns from Twister and Mission: Impossible and Independence Day, Canton suffered the further indignities of Multiplicity and The Fan. But the screening...
...duties for the time being). But most industry executives believe Sony must do more to fix its studio than merely shuffle executives. After a profligate run that astonished Hollywood, Sony acknowledged in 1994 that it had lost more than $3 billion on its filmed-entertainment operations since it bought Columbia Pictures from Coca-Cola...