Word: player
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many ghetto kids, gaining self-esteem as a basketball player has been one way to escape the snare of drugs. But New York City police say that may no longer be a local option. The reason: drug lords are recruiting promising neighborhood players, offering them such inducements as cash and $80 sneakers to play in sandlot tournaments on which the dealers place big bets...
With each freshman class, each September, come new athletes to compete for the crimson and white. At the same time, every Harvard coach hopes to find the next All-Ivy player, the next superstar...
RICHARD THOMPSON: AMNESIA (Capitol). He's a monster guitar player and a master songwriter, touching top form again on this brand-new album...
Earl Warren's dated sigh about men's failures being on the front page and their successes on the sports page changed to a laugh last week when, in the same edition, several football agents, two boxers and a hockey player extended the fields of play to a grand jury room, an all-night boutique in Harlem and a prison cell...
First, the hockey player. Dino Ciccarelli, an especially unruly forward with the Minnesota North Stars, was jailed for a day in Toronto for clubbing the Maple Leafs' Luke Richardson twice before punching him in the mouth. Known for stark behavior (already on probation for indecent exposure), Ciccarelli was judged to have exceeded the National Hockey League's acceptable level of savagery, not an easy thing to do. Though hockey players have come before judges before, Dino is thought to be the first one directed to a real penalty box after an on-ice assault...