Word: hanks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JIMMY BUFFETT USED TO HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. His music was just about the first consistent merger of Caribbean rhythms and percussion with American folk-rock pop, and it wasn't just pop to begin with. Buffett grew up in Mobile, Alabama, listening to the same Hank Williams and Jimmy Rodgers classics that whelped the Grand Ole Opry Empire of the Nashville Moguls, a philistine crew who breed for violin affinity, not for rasp'n'roll or the truckstop gut-wrench. But the Buffett derivation went the other way, toward the fringes. Lotta room out there on the fringes: Willie...
...Crimson went out like racehorses, rattling Mass. Maritime goalie Russ Wilson with six goals in the first 8:50 of the game. Faught commenced the pop-gun barrage with a tally on an assist from Hank Leopold, and Martin quickly followed with a first-quarter hat trick before Triton coach Bob Schillinglaw, in a futile attempt to regroup, called time-out at the nine-minute mark...
...Hank Leopold...
Trailing 9-7 with only a minute to go in a see-saw battle, the Crimson rallied to tie it up. First junior Jamie East won a face-off and initiated a fast-break that ended in a Bobby Mellen goal. Then Hank Leopold tallied to create the deadlock. Hofstra brought the ball inbounds with 25 seconds to go and set up a play. One shot went wide, a second was blocked by First, but the third bounced into the cage, dropping the Crimson's record...
...only a bronze medal at the Innsbruck Olympics. After that debacle, the team's annual budget was doubled, to $600,000, and its staff of coaches increased from half a dozen to 14. "With that kind of organizational and financial stability," says Alpine Ski Team Director Hank Tauber, "I can finally lay out ten-month racing and training programs and prepare younger racers as well." This year the American team trails only those of Austria and Switzerland in World Cup points, a heady jump from a seventh-place finish one year...