Word: jocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their athletes. "I've known athletes . . . who are functional illiterates and have been here for four years," says Edwards, a former college basketball player and track star. "If this is going on at Berkeley, which is supposed to have such integrity, imagine what's going on at the jock-factory schools...
...grand jury, currently looking into gambling on basketball games, called in the head coach at Memphis State University, where only four out of 38 players have managed to graduate since 1973. In the nine-member Southwest Athletic Conference, more than half the colleges have been tainted by athletic scandals. Jock factories such as these have been the feeder schools for professional teams, acting in many cases more like farm teams than educational institutions. In the National Football League barely one-third of the players hold college degrees, and some estimates for the National Basketball Association are even lower...
...counting cases of jock straps in a warehouse, I heard this gem. Next to a story about three nuns and an exercise bike, it is the worst attempt at humor I have ever seen. It goes as follows...
They still tell the story around the Harvard tennis courts about the day President Bok ventured down to view a Crimson match and what Harvard's top dog said about Harvard's then top-seeded tennis jock...
...reign over the United Mine Workers of America was marked by graft and violence; of a heart attack; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Boyle died in a hospital near the state prison where he was serving three consecutive life terms for ordering the deaths in 1969 of Union Rival Joseph ("Jock") Yablonski, his wife and daughter. The killings took place three weeks after Yablonski lost to Boyle in an election for the union presidency. Yablonski, once a lobbyist for the union, had announced that he intended to seek a new vote on grounds of fraud...