Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Greater Gusto. To advocates of women's athletics, such victories are just a foot in the door of that last sanctum of male chauvinism, the locker room. Thanks to a growing interest in physical fitness and the well-publicized success of superstars like Billie Jean King, girls are taking up sports in increasing numbers and with greater gusto than ever before. Not that most of them want to compete with boys; the emphasis is still largely on single-sex athletic programs, with the opportunities for women expanded. In Dallas, almost 100 girls from six to 16 turned out last...
...damaging of all is that essential human material is skimped. Serpico's honesty, and his appreciation of the diversity of urban life, are scarcely rooted. Lumet lets us glimpse the man's Old World Italian family (his father and brother are cobblers) and his Greenwich Village girlfriends. He creates locker-room comedy out of Serpico's love for opera and ballet. But the crucial gap between his personal life and public service, and the despair that drove him to paranoia and defensive put-ons are only vaguely rendered, like a plainclothesman's arrest sheets...
Coach Billy Cleary worked his locker room magic between the first and second periods, and by the time Harvard hit the ice, the recovery was complete. Randy Roth and Leigh Hogan tied it up, and only the heroics of Friar goalie Mike Zyburra kept the score at three apiece by the stanza's end. Zyburra racked up 28 saves in the first two periods alone...
Still, going into the locker room at halftime with a handsome 42-25 margin, Sanders was not satisfied. True to the character of the Celtic perfectionist, Sanders immediately lambasted his players' sloppy positioning on rebounds. "Nobody was blocking out and balls were being knocked out of their hands," he said. And balls knocked out of hands mean fewer baskets. The compulsive, competitive spirit of Boston Garden lives...
...budding hockey fan, I used to take in the classic confrontation between the Ivy rivals in the ancient Arena. It was always a rout for the good guys. Probably the only thing Yale came away with was a few cases of rat bite from the Arena locker rooms...