Word: failla
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Here's how Harvard Captain Rob Failla described the five-mile run through the Bronx in Van Courtland Park: "[It was a] tune-up race in which no one ran that hard...
That leaves the remaining capos jockeying for position, a scramble that began long before the trial was announced. With such enormous stakes, the godfather race could touch off a Gambino war. Three candidates lead the field. Capo James "Jimmy Brown" Failla has a strong track record in running the ; lucrative private garbage-carting business, but at 73 he may lack the stamina for big-time crime. Joseph "Butch" Corrao can cite success in overseeing gambling, restaurants and loan-sharking in Manhattan's Little Italy. Then there is John Gotti Jr., 28, cut from the same cloth as his father...
Yale's Mike Stal finished first in the men's race, covering the five-mile course in 25:22. Harvard took the second and third places, as Rob Failla and Bill Bland completed the course in 26:10 and 26:11, respectively...
...Failla was slowed by seven stitches in his leg, the result of an injury incurred at the Greater Boston Championships two weeks ago. Failla, usually a high finisher, was only the 11th-best Harvard runner yesterday...
Punter finished a respectable fourth,completing the course in 25:41, 20 seconds behindthe winner. A dearth of teammates behind Puntercost Harvard the meet, however. Woodward finishedsecond for the Crimson, but 10th overall. JohnOakes, Benjamin and Rob Failla accounted for therest of the scoring, placing 12th, 13th and 14th,respectively...