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...more wily protester is Oakland University Political Scientist Lawrence Farley, who won an unpaid position on a local charter advisory commission. Honoring the letter of the law, Farley filed reports on "The Nameless Non-Committee for a Non-Candidate for a Non-Existing Advisory Commission." Total campaign expenses: one 130 stamp to mail the form...
...Vida blue? The Oakland Athletics star pitcher had hoped to leave his losing team (last year's record: 63-98) and join the talent-heavy Cincinnati Reds. But Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who nixed the plans of Oakland A's Owner Charley Finley to sell Blue to the Yankees for $1.5 million in 1976, once again ruled no. Kuhn has set an informal ceiling on player sales-$400,000-and Finley this time was asking $1.75 million for Blue. Besides, declared Kuhn, "conduct which unreasonably saps the game of competitive balance surely is not in the best interests...
...contract. For the privilege of earning $35,000 annually in the prestigious top job at Missouri, Powers had to shell out $5,000 in escape money and take out a three-year promissory note for the remaining $50,000 at 9% interest. Powers, a onetime defensive back for the Oakland Raiders, views the move to Missouri as a boon to his career, however costly it may be. Says he: "The coaching profession is a very precarious one anyway. The same people that love you will fire you. But I'm sure going to read my contracts a bit closer...
...Monday past, baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, the leading practitioner of legalistic high-wire acrobatics that would befuddle the Wallenda brothers, voided the sale of Oakland's ace lefty Vida Blue to the Cincinnatti Reds for $1.75 million. Kuhn nixed the sale, as he had an earlier deal for Blue's services between Oakland owner Charlie Finley and the Yankees, on the grounds that it was not "in the best interests of baseball...
Still, there could be pyrotechnics on offense as both coaches search for the quick-strike, unpredictable play. Red Miller has been known to gamble on fourth down; a faked field goal against Oakland during a regular-season matchup resulted in the touchdown. That fact is less amazing than the target of the completed pass from Holder-Backup Quarterback Norris Weese: venerable Kicker Jim Turner, 36, who is enough of a football fossil to wear high-top black shoes. It was the first pass reception of his 14-year pro career. Landry has inserted special big plays into his offense...