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Charlie Ergen made his first run on the satellite-television market in the '80s, and he did it by truck. Ergen, with his future wife Candy and a poker buddy, Jim DeFranco, drove one of their two satellite dishes to Colorado, hoping his fledgling service would score big in a land of tall mountains and bad TV reception. A stiff wind blew their trailer into a ditch, ruining the dish and leaving them with only one. As it turned out, one dish was enough. Ergen used it to build EchoStar, now the nation's second largest satellite-TV company...
...Central Florida in 1982, the year after he graduated from the school and captained the team. The former topseed led his team beyond its wildest dreams, qualifying as the Southeast Regional's representative in the fist ever NCAA Division II tournament in 1982. Two players, Troy McQuagge and Mike deFranco, qualified for All-America status under Krass' leadership...
Honorable mention was awarded to Ronald M. Childress. Andrew M. Clearfield Michael Gates. John Gordon, Matthew Gurewitsch. Amy Johnson and Christopher D. Jones in the graduate division; Anthony L. DeFranco '75, in the natural sciences division; and Cass R. Sunstein '75, Daniel R.D. MacKenzie '75. Robert P. B. Moynihan '75-2, Daniel M. Mandil '78, and Richard C. Harper '75 in the undergraduate division...
...watching it towards the end," Tony DeFranco, treasurer of the Harvard Chess Club, said yesterday. "And it would have taken a Bobby Fisher to win that...
...tournament was Harvard's first to be sanctioned by the United States Chess Federation. DeFranco termed it a success, although Jacobs commented that the small prizes--$50 for individual and team firsts--kept many of the highest ranking players in the area out of the field of 43. Unlike the chess club's tournament last year, the field for this tournament was limited to student members of the USCF...
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