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...brief moment it looked like Hughes would not record the doughnut. With 1:33 left in the game, Jamie Hanlon broke away from the Harvard defense and set up a showdown with Hughes...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Young, Icemen Down Ailing Green | 12/13/1988 | See Source »

...Crimson, not only losing to Princeton, but not being able to score at Bright against the Tigers? Can't happen. Has never happened. Since 1901, the Tigers have yet to doughnut the Crimson in Cambridge...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: That's One Tough Tiger | 11/18/1988 | See Source »

...flatlands of West Texas, with an ashy-silver half-plate moon in the blue sky, the rally crowd was being warmed up by Texas agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower, a charismatic populist with a talent for comic fulmination. Dan Quayle, said Hightower, is so dumb he "thinks Cheerios are doughnut seeds." And: "If ignorance ever goes to $40 a barrel, I want the drilling rights on George Bush's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Myth and Memory | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

...when the season ended yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field with a doubleheader against Brown, the unfriendly but all too familiar doughnut was bouncing around for the seventh and final time of the year...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Bruins Baffle Crimson Batswomen; Harvard Falters in Doubleheader | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

Numbers have always consoled him. In his final appearance in the batter's box, at twilight in Cincinnati, Rose struck out on three fastballs from Goose Gossage ("I had two strikes on me before I could get the doughnut off the bat"). He also struck out in his second-to-last try. But in the final three games that Rose started, he was 8 for 13, including his tenth 5-for-5 game, one of 13 records he set that day alone. "People wonder why I didn't pinch- hit myself last season for a ceremonial goodbye, but a manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Last Goodbye to Glory | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

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