Word: guarde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guard Kevin Collins and center Bill Mohler led the cagers with 14 points apiece, both season highs. Other Harvard players reaching double figures included Keith Webster (13 points), Kyle Dodson (12) and Arne Duncan...
Cleveland's defensive secondary was similarly gifted but vain. Cornerbacks Hanford Dixon and Frank Minnifield barked like dogs at their own great plays. Bones began to fly out of the grandstands, and a wooden doghouse became a bleacher fixture (until one Sunday a security guard noticed it took more fans to carry it in than out, and investigating, found a keg of beer inside). After last January's narrow play-off loss in Miami, the 8-8 Browns were plainly getting better but were still 17 years between postseason victories...
...Saigon) party secretary, he has been identified with economic reform. Whether he can bring prosperity to his country is another matter. Several veteran Viet Nam observers believe that Hanoi's new leaders remain divided on the wisdom of adopting capitalist measures. Nor do these experts believe that the New Guard will alter the country's foreign policy course. Despite overtures from the Chinese, Viet Nam is expected to remain allied with the Soviet Union and to continue its military occupation of Kampuchea...
...scout for Indiana, Dave Twardzik, notes the new economy of Erving's moves, and smiles. Before Twardzik was a starting guard for an N.B.A. champion in Portland, he was a substitute for the Virginia Squires of the old American Basketball Association, headlined in the early '70s by an Afro-puffed University of Massachusetts underclassman from Roosevelt, N.Y. "I only played 20 minutes a game, and I didn't mind," Twardzik says, "because I could sit and enjoy Doc. I remember thinking 'They're paying me to watch this guy play.' On the bench, we'd elbow each other and whisper...
...pedigree was said to be by Elgin Baylor out of Connie Hawkins, and Erving is considered the inspiration for Dominique Wilkins and Michael Jordan. "But aren't comparisons always unfair?" he says. "I've borrowed from every player I've ever seen, from the little guard with the two-hand set shot to the big center with the slam dunk to the forward defending the passing lanes like a free safety. What separates a player, if anything does, is just the few things he adds that...