Word: dame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sport Reporter-Researcher Jamie Murphy, who traveled to Montana's home town of Monongahela, Pa., to interview Joe's mother Theresa and Joe Montana Sr., formidable influences on their son's career. Chicago Correspondent Ken Banta talked with Montana's college football mentor, former Notre Dame Head Coach Dan Devine, and spoke with several of his undergraduate teammates both in and out of professional football. What if the 49ers had lost last week? "I'm a bad prognosticator," admits Callahan. "I went all the way to Africa to pick Foreman over...
...except maybe a great coach-Joe Montana's gifts and charms are coming out just at the perfect moment. That should not be a big surprise. Timing is his strength. He was made for certain moments, and was kept from them for a be wildering period at Notre Dame, but they are here...
They have been eager to make a legend of him since he was at Notre Dame, where he put together a rout of improbable comebacks by coming off the bench, and a national championship in 1977 when, by the third game, he was finally the starter to stay. If his rise has been a little jerky to now (after all, a man must keep returning to the bench in order to vault from it again), there is no stopping the legend this time. The sportswriters wonder if he had been confident before the game, if he knew he was going...
...victory left Clemson fans singing "We're Number One!" Theirs, though, is the seventh chorus of that this season. This is the year in college football when everyone seemed to be No. 1 for 15 minutes-first Michigan, then Notre Dame (which went on to its first losing record since 1963), then U.S.C., Texas, Penn State, Pittsburgh-and now with the N.C.A.A. hovering over Clemson, it almost seems no one is No. 1. An injustice has been done all right, maybe to Clemson's opponents, maybe to Clemson...
...failure of Communism in Poland has been so spectacular that by rights it ought to be the beginning of the end of that system everywhere, including, eventually, in the U.S.S.R. President Ronald Reagan proclaimed in a speech at the University of Notre Dame last May: "The West won't contain Communism; it will transcend Communism. It won't bother to denounce it; it will dismiss it as some bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written...