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Gates Loses Face The Microsoft boss and emperor of the information age is leveled by a mystery pie-flinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

...runs only because they reached Crimson starter John Sorich early--before the rain. The knuckleballer pitched a scoreless opening frame but was touched for two runs on a walk, sacrifice, single and triple in the second. When Rhode Island added two more in the fourth, Sorich departed and lefty flinger Jim Curtin took over...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Rain, Rams Drown Crimson | 4/17/1980 | See Source »

Midwest: The Denver Nuggets' shooting gallery of McGinnis, David Thompson, Dan Issel, and new flinger Charlie Scott should outscore and outlast the other entries of the league's weakest division. The Bulls have no superstars, an aging Norm Van Lier, and a new coach in Larry Costello. The Bucks are a year and a center other than Kent Benson away from winning it all. Indiana lost two of its best players (Dan Roundfield and Earl Tatum), leaving none. The Kings finally have all American Phil Ford under contract. Not bad for the worst team in the league...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Little Hoop, Lots of Hoopla | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

...book with the subtitle Some of My Best Friends Are People should be flung across the room. The reader is urged to employ this method of criticism with the volume at hand, a collection of Leo Rosten's light essays. Book flinging improves the temper of the flinger, and in this case it improves the book as well. Passions and Prejudices, when it is retrieved and smoothed out, gets down to business and stops apologizing for its intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waxed Elbow | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...ensuing play, the Big Green's Jeff Hickey swatted Colombo's pitch upfield and pounced on it at the 24-yard line. For the first time in the game, enter Dartmouth's bionic flinger, Buddy Teevens...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Bruins and Elis Continue Winning Ways | 9/26/1977 | See Source »

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