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After the athletic department received a number of complaints about the scheduling, Nichols Family Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise asked Murphy if he would consider moving the game to appease fans. He then approached Brown coach Phil Estes with the same proposal, Murphy said, and both coaches agreed...
...the 5-ft. 6-in. (1.68 m) shortstop listened to manager Casey Stengel, who told him he'd be a better shoeshine boy than ballplayer when he tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Phil Rizzuto would not have won seven World Series rings, the American League MVP award in 1950 or election to the Hall of Fame. The Yankee great, nicknamed Scooter, then found his voice as a folksy, rambling and partisan Yankee announcer, calling games until...
...BEST KNOWN AS THE guru who launched Nancy Sinatra's career by writing and producing the racy, iconic tune These Boots Are Made for Walkin', a No. 1 hit for Sinatra in 1966. Yet a decade earlier, the work of Lee Hazlewood (below) was drawing attention from a young Phil Spector, who was intrigued by the hit sounds Hazlewood created for teenager Duane Eddy, using a grain elevator to create reverb and twang. The anti-Establishment artist, who helped spur country-pop, shunned fame by escaping to Sweden in the '70s. But by the '90s the master of "cowboy psychedelia...
...brings back a lot of high school memories for the kids,” Bears coach Phil Estes said. “It’s just a whole different atmosphere for the game itself. I think any time you can make history and do something that’s different, that’s a great thing...
...Lovitz/Dick incident was the culmination of a nearly decade-long grudge between the former News Radio co-stars. Lovitz took over for his close friend Phil Hartman on the show after Hartman was murdered by his wife, Brynn, who then committed suicide, in 1998. Lovitz has said that, at the time, he held Dick responsible for the tragedy, because Dick, Lovitz claims, had reintroduced Brynn to cocaine at a party months before the murder, leading Brynn to end a decade of sobriety and start a downward spiral. "I was angry and I was blaming him for what happened," Lovitz said...