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...Every time I break a record I'm excited, even if it's my own. I want to crack the 212 this year (he is on a 214 pace), and some season before long somebody's going to get 100 goals. I'd like it to be me." Phil Esposito's 76 goals with the Boston Bruins served as the standard for eleven years, until Gretzky beat that by 16. "It takes guts," says Esposito, now retired, "to recognize you have that much talent and to dedicate yourself...
Analyzing data from Pioneer's ultraviolet spectrometer, the University of Colorado's Larry Esposito found that 1978 sulfur dioxide levels in the Venusian atmosphere were 50 times as high as expected. Since then, the sulfur dioxide lev els have been slowly tapering off, just as they drop after a major volcanic eruption on earth. Another investigator, Fred Scarf of TRW Inc., the spacecraft's builders, disclosed that an on-board instrument called a plasma-wave detector had recorded repeated lightning discharges over two mountain regions. On earth, such electrical activity commonly accompanies volcanic outbursts...
Coincidentally, Charles Esposito, the emergency medical technician who saved Cimino's life when her heart stopped, will drive the ambulance today for the two-hour trip to Valhalla...
...broke free. He sailed across the mouth of the goal and daintily flicked his left wrist. Before Goaltender Don Edwards knew it, he had become a trivia question. Later, after being dug out from under a pile-up of his teammates, Gretzky was presented the puck by Phil Esposito, who held the old record. "It's a tremendous relief," Gretzky told...
...Esposito scored 76 goals for the Boston Bruins in 1970-71 with the considerable assistance of Teammate Bobby Orr, who set the N.H.L. assist mark at the same time. Gretzky broke Orr's record last year (109) while establishing a total points standard (combined goals and assists, 164) that he shattered last week as well. He has been in the league three seasons, and the Most Valuable Player trophy awaiting him will be his third...