Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trumpet-tootling Mississippian, and his sideman, white, fiddle-playing Alabamian John Hannah, are close friends off the field and dominant on it. Tight End Russ Francis brought to the team a free spirit and a Hawaiian hex for use against opponents when he arrived as a first-round draft pick last year. Francis owns his own Beechcraft and zips around in a Maserati when he is not punishing linebackers or breaking into the clear for key receptions. "The car is almost as fast as the plane," Francis says nonchalantly. At 6 ft. 6 in., 240 Ibs., Francis still can sprint...
Steve Grogan, 23, came into town last year with as much hoopla and advance warning as fog in Boston Harbor, a fifth-round draft pick from Kansas State. He was an all-round athlete back home in Ottawa, but even then he was never with a winner. Says he: "There were four elementary schools in town and each one had a team. One school always had the biggest team, and it wasn...
COLGATE AT PRINCETON: Does anybody really care who wins this game? A real dead heat, and the temptation is to pick a tie, but that's not good for the percentage. Besides, Colgate is currently undefeated, and there's no way that will last much longer. Princeton 4, Colgate 3 (in extra innings...
...weekly lottery. His scheme to fulfill this child-like desire is a transparent cheat any kid could see through. Three blindfolded children select numbered balls from three bags. The patriarch invariably holds the number they choose. (The correct balls are frozen, so the children can feel which ones to pick...
Soap, the Proposition's new revue, attempts to pick up where Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman leaves off. Using a play-within-a-play format, it not only burlesques the conventions of daytime drama; it also tries to explore what soap opera as an art form means to both its actors and its audience...