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Saturday's Ivy League gridiron action was typified by inexplicable games where momentum could turn around a game in a heartbeat...
...onetime superagent, who co-founded Creative Artists Agency, suffered a setback last week when the NFL rejected his proposal to bring a professional-football expansion team to L.A. Ovitz had spent years on the project and secured the cooperation of stars such as Tom Cruise to spearhead the gridiron campaign, only to be outbid by organizers in Houston. This came amid reports that Ovitz, now a manager at his new firm, Artists Management Group, was having trouble interesting Hollywood studios in the rights to the latest manuscript by Michael Crichton. Ovitz recently lured the Jurassic Park author, whose previous novels...
...afternoon, the yellow-helmeted Cougars doused their faces in the water fountain and strolled onto the football field for practice. But the sideline chatter at this suburban campus outside Sacramento, Calif., was anything but casual. Over the summer Center High School's onetime journalism teacher, baseball coach and enthusiastic gridiron announcer had changed from David Warfield to Dana Rivers--and lost her job as a result. Even the jocks were in shock. "He? She? Whatever!" said Fidel Ramos, a hefty linebacker. "They shouldn't fire her." Sophomore Kevin Owen agreed: "It's not his fault he has a disease...
...back, baby. On the road to Super Bowl 2000, TIME Daily's famed pigskin prognosticators welcome some fresh (and ? gasp! ? female) gray matter to its two-man brain trust with the addition of "Mean" Josie Greene. She's new to the staff and ready to gauge the '99 gridiron alongside her Adam's-appled colleagues. Defending champ L.I. Slim is definitely feeling the pressure. From the new fearsome threesome, the locks of the week and the guesses of the rest. We'll be betting in Yugoslav dinars because ? as always ? it's for entertainment purposes only, lest someone get their...
...Thick, shiny black hair, a slim muscular body on which his dark suit draped in soft folds. Afterward, I wondered if it was something like what Scott Fitzgerald saw when he remembered the college football stars of his young manhood, those young men who just then, on the gridiron and in their youth, were having the best moment of their lives...