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FALSE GLORY: THE STEVE COURSON STORY by Steve Courson and Lee R. Schreiber (Longmeadow Press; $19.95). The former Steelers offensive lineman teams up with a brilliant rookie biographer for an expose of the unforgiving world of professional football and the body-bulking steroids that helped Courson get to the top of the heap before side effects left him in desperate need of a heart transplant...
Emtman, who was the leader of the nation's best defense, already has won the Lombardi Award and Outland Trophy as the top lineman in the country. But no pure defensive player has ever won the Heisman. The best finish by a defender was in 1980, when Pittsburgh's Hugh Green was runner-up to George Rogers of South Carolina...
...want to play them up there because we know when they come to Miami it's going to be no problem," defensive lineman Anthony Hamlet said. "We're going to beat them anyway up there, but it's just the fact that we're going to their field and we're going to spoil their dreams of a winning a national championship...
...third down and seven with the ball on the Princeton 46, Mike Giardi dished to Hirsch on the left side. The burly back charged forward, but lost his balance at the line of scrimmage. Picking himself up, Hirsch leaped ahead over a Princeton lineman before finally being knocked down by free safety Marvin Williamson...
...Goliath aspects of the competition. New gladiators with backgrounds as professional football players and Olympic competitors were hired. The costumes were redesigned for a sportier look. And, most important, both gladiators and contenders were directed to play for real. "It's now pure competition," says Horton, a former lineman with the Philadelphia Eagles and Boston Patriots who is the only one of the gladiators from the original pilot still with the show. The authenticity of the competition is driven home by the injuries among gladiators as well as contenders. "We've had broken collar bones, torn up knees and neck...