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Returning players to watch: Keiron Bigby (QB), Walt Cataldo (FS), Rick Collett (OG), Dave Fielding (WR), Mark Kachmer (CB), Jeff Watts (DE), Pete Zidlicky (TE) Week 8: Massachusetts...
Both the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Football League have announced sweeping plans for mandatory drug testing. The N.F.L. Players Association has challenged Commissioner Pete Rozelle's authority to carry out such a program; with the players back at training camps and the season set to begin in three weeks, the matter is expected to be resolved by mid-September. As college athletes return to their campuses, the N.C.A.A. is preparing a widespread testing program for so-called recreational drugs, including cocaine and marijuana, as well as for such performance-related drugs as amphetamines and steroids...
...trial, which finally began last May and lasted 2 1/2 months, brought a parade of more than 40 witnesses, whose testimony amounted to a morass of contradictions. Supercaster Howard Cosell, for example, testified that ABC Executive Roone Arledge had confided to him that N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle was "all over me" to drop U.S.F.L. coverage. But Arledge countered under oath that he had said no such thing. Trump testified that Rozelle had promised him a franchise if he agreed not to sue. But Rozelle testified that Trump had begged him for a franchise, promising to "find some stiff...
...stage for her medal. She asked for the help of one young Marine, preferably "handsome and unmarried." She needed the additional arm of a naval officer, but she proudly made it, while the audience applauded all the way. Alan Lomax, 71, who helped America discover Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie, explained as he left the White House on that special day that he had gathered "the voices of the voiceless Americans" to bring to the President...
...Senate floor, the transition rules faced a rare attack, mounted by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, who branded many of them "greed rules." Metzenbaum got the Unocal rule deleted with Packwood's support. One reason: Packwood had a score to settle with California Republican Pete Wilson, the rule's co-sponsor. But otherwise, Senators were of a mind to add rather than subtract. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens complained that the privilege of inserting transition rules in the bill was being hogged by Finance Committee members...