Word: linesman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MIKE CLARK, senior guard. The only thing you have to know about this 6-1, 220 linesman is that he can move people. People on the other team, that is. He can do it all--pull, trap, passblock. If the hopes of the defense center around Beling, then the hopes of the offense rest in large part with Clark...
...this-world purses, and country-club courtliness has been supplanted by locker-room epithets. With $12 million at stake this year on the men's tournament circuit and another $5 million up for grabs on the women's tour, a bad call by a linesman is worth money-not to mention a few choice words. However offensive the behavior of the modern mercenaries, other, more serious problems confronted the sport as it moved into its new National Tennis Center on the grounds of the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fairs...
Nastase, currently under a 90-day ban for his loathsome court behavior, threw the finals of the 1975 Canadian Open Championships after a linesman's call went against him in the first set. Nastase sleepwalked through the final sets, winning but one game, and was fined $6,000 for "not using his best efforts." But in other sports-remember baseball's Black Sox?-he might well have been banned for life for throwing a game...
This year's Super Bowl zebras will, as always, be an all-star cast, chosen by N.F.L. Supervisor of Officials Art Mc-Nally and his staff after watching game films and grading performances. The referee, linesman, head linesman, umpire, field judge and back judge who rate number one will get to call the big one this Sunday. Two retired N.F.L. referees who have been there before, Norm Schachter (three Super Bowls) and Tommy Bell (two Super Bowls), last week reflected on the techniques and pratfalls of the official's craft: Schachter on Super Bowl preparation On the Friday...
Most people could not pronounce his name. He came from the back courts; he applauded his opponent's best shots; if he thought an adversary had got a bad linesman's call, he would chivalrously knock his next return into the net. He smiled his toothy grin when his rivals snarled or cursed. But last week Manuel Orantes, 26, an optician's son from Barcelona, took the center court at Forest Hills in the U.S. Open tournament and beat the stuffing out of Jimmy Connors, 23, who has a lot of stuffing and some of the best...