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...heartland, where right-wing candidates knocked so many liberal Senators into political oblivion in 1980, there is but one real election issue this year: the farm crisis. Class of '80 members who are favored to win -- Wisconsin's Robert Kasten, Iowa's Charles Grassley, Indiana's Dan Quayle, Oklahoma's Don Nickles -- have tried to distance themselves from Reagan's farm policies. But their colleague, James Abdnor of South Dakota, fumbled the farm issue and subsequently found himself fighting an uphill battle for re- election...
...been evicted from the dormitory for having a firearm. A chunk of the team is in the process of making restitution for phone calls charged with an illegal access number. Individual scandals have ranged from car-leasing improprieties to steroid possession to shoplifting. In other news, they beat Oklahoma last week...
...have won it last week as No. 2 Miami went head to head with No. 1 Oklahoma while Testaverde at least seemed to be similarly engaged with Brian Bosworth. Events in college football have seldom been so clear cut. Bosworth is an unruly linebacker who prunes his head like a boxwood bush and streaks it with rainbows to spell out individuality. Even as its children have taken to emulating him, the Oklahoma Bible Belt has somehow been able to rationalize Bosworth, to forgive the occasional "loogie" he talks of spitting into opponents' faces, and to disregard some other troubling things...
...State's D.J. Dozier and Florida's Kerwin Bell suddenly seemed minor candidates, especially after Testaverde completed 21 of 28 passes for 261 yds. and the first four touchdowns scored this season against the defending champions. Bosworth was relatively subdued and was not detected goobering on anyone. Testaverde riddled Oklahoma almost as emphatically last year in Norman, 27-14, but any title claim was lost in the Sugar Bowl to Tennessee, 35-7. "I've put that out of my head," the quarterback said before last Saturday's game, "but not permanently...
Imagine Harvard tying Oklahoma, and you can picture the scene of jubilation on the Crimson bench as the stickwomen--after 90 minutes of exhausting play--forced a 1-1 deadlock with the nationally-ranked Huskies in front of 40 spectators...