Word: minored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This suggestion will be condemned as sacrilegious by purists, but at least it is honest. It realizes that colleges serve as minor leagues for the NBA and NFL, and it realizes that most college athletes are not very good at passing even the mickeymouse courses in which they are enrolled...
Players would be paid like minor leaguers in other sports like baseball and hockey without having to go to class. Their seats would be filled by students more deserving of a college education, and classes like "History of Carbonated Beverages" and "Topics in Badminton" would disappear from college curriculums...
...40th anniversary of the breaking of baseball's color line, an honored executive with Jackie Robinson's old team unwittingly let the country look inside him, and inside the game, to see plainly that the line still exists. Los Angeles Dodgers Vice President Al Campanis, 70, a former minor-league shortstop when Robinson was a second baseman in Montreal, was questioned by ABC Nightline Anchor Ted Koppel about the utter absence of black managers and general managers and the uniform dearth of black executives in what is billed as the great American pastime. Campanis replied, "I truly believe that they...
...moppet whose appearance was so angelic that no one but her mother suspected the hidden crimes. British Novelist B.M. Gill has given the premise a sardonic twist: in Nursery Crimes, wicked little Zanny repeatedly confesses to several murders but is so widely disbelieved that she concludes her sins are minor, subject to a penance of three Hail Marys. At home, at school, in church and even among the police, grownups fail her. The story's most compelling relationship unfolds between Zanny and her adopted sister Dolly, who witnesses the first killing, of their younger brother. Dolly keeps her guard...
Providence policemen said Miller was driving at 65 miles per hour in a 25-mile-per-hour area when he hit Pantalina, who died instantly. Miller and his two-companions received minor injuries in the crash, The Herald reported...