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...woman pro-tennis player. O.J. Simpson was in another room at the same place receiving the Life Saver the of the Month award for some timely yardage back in September. When the two sports persons bumped into each other the way out, the Juice proposed a match in the offseason. "I always thought tennis was a sissy game, " he said. "Guys that didn't run around with me played tennis. Now I play a lot. May be Billie Jean will give me a lesson...
...next by neglecting to submit for certification a world record set by an N.C.A.A. runner. Though the authorities generally wink at under-the-table gratuities of various kinds, the N.C.A.A. once suspended Oregon State's Gary Freeman from the varsity basketball team for violating a rule about offseason play. Freeman's heinous crime: on a trip home to Boise, Idaho, he returned to his high school to play in a seniors v. alumni game in which no score was kept and the admission was all of 250. Not to be outdone, the A.A.U. once strongly chastised a Fort...
...endless demands for public appearances that "I just couldn't say no to." Among other charitable projects, Clemente last week led Puerto Rico's efforts to aid earthquake victims in Managua, Nicaragua, a city where he had coached and played with Puerto Rican teams during the offseason. Not satisfied with merely lending his name to the mercy mission, Clemente insisted on going along to Managua to see that some 26 tons of food and $150,000 in relief money were properly distributed...
...with honors in 1923, Berg signed on for a summer with the Brooklyn Dodgers to finance a trip to Europe. Despite his mediocre bat (.243 lifetime average), he stayed in the game for 19 years, the last seven as catcher and coach for the Boston Red Sox. In the offseason he also became fluent in ten languages, studied at the Sorbonne, and picked up a law degree at Columbia University. Berg quit baseball in 1942 and served as an OSS agent in Nazi-occupied Europe, where he gathered information on Germany's nuclear weapons research...
...learn to read defenses clearly." Staubach disagrees. He argues that "I cannot be a complete quarterback until I can call the plays," and wants to take over the team on his own next season. "I won't worry," he says, "until I see Landry working out in the offseason, like throwing a ball through a rubber tire in the backyard...