Word: daves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Injuries just killed us, it's that simple," head coach Dave Fish says. "We had three of our best players out for the key points of the season. If they hadn't gone down, I think the season might have gone a little differently...
Defensively the Tigers will be even worse off. Only three starters return from last year: junior linebacker Dave Patterson, senior strong safety Mark Berkowitz and senior cornerback Jonathan Reid. Princeton also lost its defensive coordinator, Mark Harriman, who has joined Murphy's Harvard staff...
...booming class of unfortunates: the hardworking homeless. To step off the main drag of a glistening little jewel like Telluride, then, is like stepping out the back flap of a circus tent: Lord, there's a caravansary of gypsies parked back here! The chief of Telluride's housing authority, Dave Johnson, quit in June, citing job stress. The problem, says Jim Davidson, editor of the Telluride Times-Journal, "brings instability and a surly work force. We can't expect nice worker attitudes when people come to work begging a shower...
...author manages, more or less, to stay off the metaphorical sauce for the rest of the book. But other problems bedevil the story, which is the seventh of Burke's mysteries about Dave Robicheaux, a cop who belongs to A.A. The series shows signs of wear. Other Burke plots have been fanciful, but this one is too big and operatic for anything but a James Bond thunderation...
...manager Howie Freiling, 28, who never saw the Bigs. "I had a cup of coffee in Triple A," he says with disarming candor. "I was a first baseman who didn't hit for power. The fact that I was a well-below-average runner didn't help." Pitching coach Dave LaRoche did make it to the Show, compiling a 65-58 record in a career that lasted 14 seasons. Yet the minors attract him on a gut level. "If I wasn't in baseball," LaRoche says, "I would live in a town with a minor league team so my kids...