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...only lost, we shouldn't have even shown up," Coach Carole Kleinfelder said somewhat more succintly. "Captain Fulton had a knee injured two days ago, and many team members are just recovering from the flu," she added...
Safer is more the way Richard Nixon viewed it. Turning the hideaway into a virtual hideout during the Watergate era, Nixon would spend long hours in his favorite armchair next to Aspen's massive central fireplace, with legal pads on his knee, trying to explain away the crisis...
Once he barreled across the scrimmage line, all 6 ft. 8 in., 285 lbs. of him, as the crowd chanted: "Kill, Bubba, kill!" But Charles Aaron ("Bubba") Smith, the former defensive left end for the Baltimore Colts, collided with an aluminum yard marker in 1972, suffered a severe knee injury, and was later forced to give up the game. Now, in an unprecedented legal case, Smith, 32, is asking $1.5 million from the N.F.L. in a negligence suit. He claims that officials failed to remove the marker in time when the action flowed toward the sidelines. To help his case...
Irion participated in three pre-season scrimmages but his knee quickly puffed up. Boland administered a dye test on the knee and decided it was necessary for Steve to undergo an operation known as a "lateral mackintosh." Irion had severed the cruciate ligament which holds the knee cap in place and it had literally dissolved. In a delicate three-hour operation, Boland drilled a pair of small holes in Irion's knee which he threaded with a tendon from a leg muscle so as to reconstruct the missing ligament...
Irion's rickety knee has given him an unexpected opportunity to spend his spare time doing more than honing his jump shot. He occasionally serves as a color commentator on WHRB's basketball broadcasts and has assisted Ray Martin coaching the freshman cagers. As far as his duties with the freshman squad go, Irion quips, "I was just trying to help out the big men a little but the problem is they don't have...