Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would seem that other coaches didn't appreciate it when Clemson boss Danny Ford left his first team in for the whole game to run up the score against hapless Wake. It would also seem that Ford learned nothing about coaching etiquette during his years under Bear Bryant, the man who taught Bum Phillips to take off his hat when his team played indoors...
...Trojans are good, but the best team that they will play all year is Oklahoma--the same Oklahoma that is now 4-2-1. When, and if, USC goes to the Rose Bowl, all it will have to do is beat a team from the hapless Big Ten--an effort that hardly merits a national title...
...real punishment," says Steve Martin of the nine-month regimen of instruction he endured for the film Pennies from Heaven. The musical drama, scheduled for Christmas release, is based on a 1978 BBC series and not the breezy 1936 Bing Crosby picture. Steve plays a hapless sheet-music vendor who wants to live in a world "where the songs come true." Co-star Bernadette Peters, 31, Steve's oft reported main squeeze offstage, provides the love interest. With Depression-era recordings backing them on the soundtrack, the dapper duo lip-sync their way through 15 songs and six lavish...
Following the loss to Brown, the aquamen released their frustration by swamping a hapless Columbia squad, 13-5. Hawaiian scoring machine Fasi got Harvard off to a fast start with four tallies in the first period and added a fifth before hanging up his swimsuit for the day. On defense, Reid watched from the sidelines as replacements Mehmet Oz and freshman Brian Graham consistently thwarted the Lions' attach from the goal...
...York, the Yankees exploded for seven runs in the fourth inning on the way to a 13-3 shellacking of the hapless Oakland A's. The Yanks' third consecutive victory in post-season play moves them to within one game of the American League championship...