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However, despite the hordes of Khans, Harvard men's squash coach Dave Fish is optimistic about Desaulniers' chances of victory. "Mike has beaten all the Khans except Sharif and he took him to four games last week in Montreal," Fish said, "so if he gets and early lead he could...
...fool. The management that traded him to Montreal, that benched him during the gasping stretch of the 1978 season in favor of Pawtucket sweetmeat, was. With more than 50 years worth of cameras and newsclips and Causeway St. anecdotes, there's Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Sparky Lyle, Ernie Shore, Dutch Leonard, Duffy Lewis, Cecil Cooper, the heroes whose promise was traded for cash or mediocrity. Back, further into the piles of faded photographs and daguerreotypes of old-looking men in baggy, dusty uniforms, there's Lou Boudreau, Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda, Ellston Howard, the heroes that Red Sox management fielded...
...undefeated Harvard rugby team won its sixth consecutive game on Saturday, shutting out McGill University from Montreal by a score of 16-0 to capture the Covo...
Unfortunately for the opposition, the Pirates romped on the field as well. Pittsburgh came from behind to win 41 games, and 25 times they scored the winning run in their final turn at bat. After a seesaw division-title fight with the astonishing Montreal Expos (the two teams swapped the lead nine times in the last 20 days), the Pirates finished with 38 wins in their final 52 games, compiling the second best record in the major leagues.* Says Stargell: "We have a very special feeling for each other on this team...
Long the fat matron of Montreal's once powerful English-speaking minority, the Star consistently outsold its morning rival, the Gazette (circ. 168,000), which was founded in 1778 and is owned by the Southam chain (the Ottawa Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two decades, Toronto has gradually displaced Montreal as the nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that...