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Cable is increasingly becoming a player as well. ESPN, the all-sports channel launched in late 1979, began by shoveling hours of fringe sports at hard-core fans, everything from dart throwing to Australian-rules football. Now, with an audience of more than 55 million homes, it is aggressively bidding for major sports like pro football and baseball. So is Ted Turner's TNT. HBO, meanwhile, has become the dominant network in boxing; it currently holds the exclusive rights for Mike Tyson's heavyweight fights...
...Amis blitz. Keith Talent reads like a composite of every cheating, pub-crawling lout that Amis has ever met, which is probably quite a few. A typical Talent day includes waking with a hangover, a round of serial adulteries and petty larcenies, then hours of whetting his dart skills at the Black Cross. A typical business transaction includes stealing a shipment of perfume and, when finding out that it is mostly water, unloading the stuff on a store owner who pays him with counterfeit bills. Talent then uses the forgeries to buy vodka that turns out to be the nonperfume...
While the Harvard women's basketball team was hoping to make a comeback in the second half of its season to catch league-leading Dart-mouth, it fell victim to a second half comeback by Penn, falling to the Quakers last night, 71-68, before 182 fans at the Palestra...
...enthusiasm for that work is infectious. In person, she is shy yet affable, serious but quick to smile, and full of energy; she doesn't so much walk as dart. Her private life, centered on a Bowery loft with the sculptor Peter Boynton and a cat named Sam, is something she guards fiercely. Her black hair, which once extended to her waist, has been cut short for quite some time, and her dark eyes draw you to her with their intensity. She dresses simply -- T shirts and sneakers whenever possible -- is self-conscious about her youthful appearance (she turned...
Lost to Kathryn Savorese (Dart...