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Some people were surprised after the end of the 1988 season when Gicewicz was named the captain for the 1989 squad. First, because he was a nose tackle. On the gridiron, the nose tackle position is about as glamorous as working the drive-thru shift at a local McDonald's. When you talk football, you mean running backs, quarterbacks and wide receivers. Nose tackles just get their uniforms dirty...
Another Stephen King blood leaker is loosed upon the world, this one in a record first printing of 1.5 million copies. The ghost of Gutenberg, calling feebly for beer from the gridiron of some Germanic hell, must be wondering whether movable type was really a good idea...
...President, who has been dogged by the "wimp factor," did not back his alma-mater Yale about, which will take to the gridiron today against its traditional cold war rivals from Harvard...
...football fan in Dallas this year. Maybe it's some kind of curse inflicted by Tom Landry. But whatever the reason, the action on the gridiron has been as exciting as watching two economists discussing trade incentives for underdeveloped countries on public television. In one corner, you have the Dallas Cowboys, the only team in the NFL that hasn't won a game this season. In the other corner, the SMU Mustangs, who are quickly becoming the nation's worst college football team. (Good news for Kansas State...
Collins himself is bigger than ever before. On the field in Saturday's scrimmage against Brown he looks almost dominating. It is strange to see a man who looked so small on the basketball court loom so large on the gridiron...