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Thus began the deal that astonished the sports world last week: Miami Dolphin Running Backs Csonka and Kiick and Wide Receiver Warfield, stalwarts of the Dolphin dynasty, are going to defect to the Toronto Northmen of the W.F.L. the season after next, when their present contracts expire. To jump, they signed a joint contract that totals more than $3 million in salary, bonus money and benefits. Csonka will receive close to $1.4 million over a three-year period, Warfield $900,000, and Kiick $700,000 -three to four tunes more than they might have expected from the Dolphins. Further, they...
...produced the blockbuster agreement were packed with the high-stakes, high-pressure wheeling and dealing between agents and owners that has become a troubling trademark of professional sports. After that January lunch where it all began, Keating did not think about the W.F.L. bid again until early February when Northmen President John Bassett phoned him. "I've heard about the ballpark figure you came up with," said Bassett. "Are you serious?" Keating stuck to his figure and the Toronto executive said that he wanted to do business...
...warn the populace that "The Vikings Are Coming!" Reviewers all over the U.S. have been showered with plastic viking ships and savage-looking letter openers in the form of a viking dagger. Seven Norwegian seamen, lured by the hope of adding another Leif to the nautical history of the Northmen, are sailing across the Atlantic in one of the ships used in the film, and the TV cameras will be waiting for them at the docks. The opening of the picture was described by Douglas advancemen as the biggest thing to hit Broadway since asphalt-a "dual premiere." As thousands...
Hardly larger than a duck, Ross's goose is the smallest and rarest of American species. It is white, with black wing tips. Northmen call it the "galoot" or "scabby-nosed wavey" (its bill has rough bumps at the base). Its official name came from Bernard R. Ross, a Hudson's Bay Co. factor at Fort Resolution. In autumn the birds migrate south and west to spend the winter in California valleys...
...international meet has been plannel to take place at Stanford Bridge, Surrey, England, where Harold, the ultimate Saxon, took the measure of the Northmen...