Word: pete
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought as a team we played a bit lackadaisically," goalie Pete Albers said. "We didn't come out with the fire that we can play with. We just kind of came out flat. Those kinds of things can happen in non-league games...
Basketball? See Pete Carrill's Princeton. They pass, they look, they pass, they pass again, they back-door somebody in the paint for a layup and win by averaging barely 60 points a game--all the excitement of watching brain surgery performed, and without even any of the blood...
...midst of all the history on collusion, Curt Flood and the reserve clause [and if you are a sports fan and don't know what the above items signify, PLEASE do yourself a favor and find out], the death threats to Hank Aaron, Steinbrenner, the fall of Pete Rose...therein stood Bob Costas, a true romantic spokesman for the game, talking from the inside about Gibson and Buckner and giving their deeds an new, even shinier lustre...
Feinstein was prescient enough to make illegal immigration a pet issue, which gives her some political cover in her unexpectedly tight race against conservative Santa Barbara Congressman Michael Huffington. But the same cannot be said of Democrat Kathleen Brown, who in a struggle to unseat Governor Pete Wilson finds herself slipping over what has become the most hazardous issue of the 1994 elections. If California runs true to form, leading America's social revolutions through the ballot box, it will pass Proposition 187, an implacable, baldly unconstitutional plan to cut off services to illegal immigrants, from schools to health care...
...Pete Sampras may just be the best role model for young athletes in any sport. His gutsy performance in the recent Davis Cup tie against Sweden, offering himself up to his country and a fallen friend (Vitas Geralitus), shows us that athletes can still believe in icons other than money, even when his body and mind might disagree with his heart...