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...Quakers should put in a legitimate bid for the first few weeks, and, spearheaded by All-Ivy back Dennis Grosvenor and quarterback Tom Roland, their Wishbone offense is no fluke. All Penn does is run, and an experienced interior line should be more than adequate. Penn gained a school record 2504 yards on the ground last autumn and looks to improve on that this year...
...Thank you Don we have the major leagues' newest hero with us here tonight and tell us Sulli -- was the ephus pitch you threw to George Foster n the bottom of the ninth with two out and a man on third for real or was it just a fluke...
Young ``wuz robbed'' of a decision against Ali over a year ago. They said Ali was out of shape. Cheered wildly by the locals of San Juan, ``Yimee'' Young outpointed George Foreman last spring. Again it was called a fluke: Foreman has brains like Kojak has hair...
...mountain's name was a fluke. As local historians tell it, in 1896 W.A. Dickey, an ornery gold prospector and one of the first U.S. explorers in the area, fell into an argument with two supporters of William Jennings Bryan and his free-silver movement. The prospector retaliated by naming the mountain after the champion of the gold standard, then Presidential Candidate William McKinley. The name stuck and gradually worked its way into maps and books. Now there is virtually no resistance in the state to the proposed name change. Few Alaskans feel that the long-dead President deserves...
...Rhythm Boys featured by Paul Whiteman-this before the King of Jazz fired him for not taking his work seriously enough. Nor was Whiteman the only early employer that Crosby disenchanted by drinking and carousing too much. He became a national name only after a medical fluke-the sudden occurrence of nodules on his vocal cords-caused him to lose his voice just before his first scheduled radio network show in 1931. When the voice came back, it had, thanks to the nodules, what Crosby called "the effect of a lad with his voice changing singing into a rain barrel...