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Michigan's Wolverines continue to claw their way toward the top of. The Associated Press college football poll. Only Iowa and Oklahoma remain in their...
...over that his eyes "were like two holes in a snowbank." When Ted Williams tried to explain the science of hitting, says No. 7, "he got me crazy just thinking about it." Yet this incessant candor makes The Mick a winner. Ingenuously, Mantle speaks of growing up in the Oklahoma dust, of Joe DiMaggio's icy remoteness, of Casey Stengel's Old Perfessor act that slipped on and off like a warmup jacket, of Billy Martin's violent insecurities, of the Hodgkin's disease that killed his father and afflicts his son. There is considerably more than towel snapping here...
...Scripps family for 112 years. Gannett offered $1,583 a share for a total of $717 million, beating out Washington Redskins Owner Jack Kent Cooke and Hollywood Producer Norman Lear. Besides the money-losing News (circ. 667,000), Gannett will acquire lucrative television stations in Washington, Tucson, Oklahoma City, Austin and Mobile. Since the Federal Communications Commission restricts a company from holding media properties in the same market, Gannett must decide whether to sell several possessions, including the Tucson Citizen...
Since the ENA board's decision to sell, potential buyers have been lining up like antique dealers at an estate sale. Although Clark considers the News the crown jewel of the company, bidders seem more enticed by ENA's highly profitable television stations in Washington, Tucson, Oklahoma City, Austin and Mobile. (ENA also owns nine newspapers in California and New Jersey, and radio stations in Detroit.) Rumored potential suitors include CBS, Hearst, Washington Redskins Owner Jack Kent Cooke, the Tribune Co. and Wesray Corp. (headed by former Treasury Secretary William Simon). Another major contender is considered to be the Gannett...
Perhaps the biggest paradox in this all is that the program is one of the finest in the nation. From the first varsity sport to the last recreational class, the Harvard Department of Athletics provides some of the best facilities found anywhere. And that does include Oklahoma and Ohio State...