Word: mccarver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Breastroke: 1. H, Jaffe 2:02.39; 2. H, Lutz 2:08.00; 3. H, Zumpano 2:08.31; 4. A, Brown 2:09.77; 5. H, Wolf 2:09.77; 6. A, McCarver 2:11.36; 7. A, Trisler 2:13.28; 8. A, Hauschild...
...Individual Medley: 1. H, Jaffe 1:51.79; 2. H, Lin 1:54.90; 3. H, Watson 1:55.95; 4. A, Anderson 1:58.00; 5. A, Ewen 1:58.31; 6. A, Brown 1:58.39; 7. A, McCarver...
...rallying call. Advertisers might term this subconscious motivation, but it is conscious aggravation to everyone else. And someone seems to open the hatch to the broadcast booth whenever the organist strikes up again. After three days of shouting over an uninterrupted commercial, ABC's Al Michaels, Tim McCarver and Jim Palmer must have been glad to get back to the relative quiet of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome...
...McCarver, calling the game for ABC, used his phenomenal recall of sports trivia--which he usually reserves for such subjects as Shakespeare and root canals--to reveal that the throwing of an octopus is a Detroit tradition. Detroit Red Wings' fans at the Cobo Arena frequently celebrated goals in big games by tossing an octopus...
...McCarver was probably the only person in Tiger Stadium that day who knew this strange fact...