Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house, there were foul poles (garden posts) and an on-deck circle with extra bats (if you swung two or more at a time, you were pretty cool). There was a home-made dugout occupied only by the "ghost runners" and even a resin bag (stuffed and clipped white rag) on the mound...
...misunderstanding gave Bucknell an opportunity to pull back. With 10 seconds left, the referee called a foul on a Harvard player--who didn't hear the call in the commotion...
Most movies about low-life Americana condescend to their subject with lots of sweat, foul patter, fat ladies and idiot giggling. This lurid and intermittently seductive melodrama (based on a true story) just observes Brad Sr. and his mob dispassionately, like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...
Mike Wiseman followed with a grounder up the middle that bounced off of Kay's glove for an RBI single. But a foul out and a baserunning blunder ended the Brandeis rally...
...wiry as a mouth full of braces, three days shy of 19, Ellison instantly followed the shot into the basket and before long followed the basket to the foul line. Two calm free throws topped off his 25-point performance, good for the Most Valuable Player trophy, and the Cardinals' second title of the '80s. "What's the MVP," Ellison asked beautifully, "when you've got the national championship?" Not since the '50s and Bill Mlkvy, Temple's renowned "Owl-Without-a-Vowel," has basketball identified a hero as charmingly as "Never Nervous" Pervis. At the same time, not since...