Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like playing quarterback for his high school football team in Flint, Mich., pitching for the University of Michigan, earning the 1987 Sullivan Award as America's best amateur athlete, winning the gold-medal baseball game in the Seoul Olympics and being drafted No. 1 by the Angels. Though he is expected to open the season in the AA or AAA minors, for now Abbott's shirt says ANGELS. "Just looking around at everything here," he says, "it hits you. A big- league camp...
This is not to say that these standards are adequate, only to suggest that suddenly lowering them for a case of male-to-male harassment is highly suspect. If Buckley's friend is to receive some medal as the victim of sexual harassment in this incident, some-body had better make hundreds of them, because many women at this university have much better stories than that to tell (funny how our stories never get much sympathy...
When Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal for the 100-meter race at the Seoul Olympics for using illegal steroids, he claimed that someone had spiked his water bottle. That dubious explanation was torpedoed last week by Johnson's longtime coach, Charlie Francis, who told a government inquiry that the runner, along with up to a dozen other athletes at his Toronto club, had knowingly been taking performance-enhancing drugs since...
Princeton is led by junior workhorse Mike Ross, the defending champion in the 500 freestyle and the top returning swimmer in the 200 freestyle. Eric Osborne has aready qualified for the NCAA meet in the 50 freestyle and grabbed the gold medal in the 100 freestyle one year...
LaSalle senior Jeff Gershe is the only other returning champion, winning the gold medal in the 1650 freestyle...