Word: player
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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California (5th) and SMU (9th), both with first-round byes, will square-off in the second round. Jennifer Santrock, the nation's ninth-ranked singles player, and Jean Marie Sterling will lead the way for the Mustangs. SMU is also the owner of the nation's number-one ranked doubles team of Clare Evert and Tammy Christensen...
Eric grew up in Los Angeles' posh Brentwood section, and by tenth grade was an honor student, a varsity baseball player and an accomplished cellist. He was also becoming a crack addict. With friends who were similarly hooked, Eric would hop into the white Volkswagen camper his dad had bought him and drive into the seedy Venice Beach area. There he would purchase rocks from Los Angeles gang members. Sometimes he made three trips...
...without the bad and the ugly, the picture is distorted and the political odyssey incomplete. If he had not been a hardball player, he would never have entered the presidential primary after Eugene McCarthy had cleared the way. Without his ruthless, hard-nosed side, Bobby might not have been able to put together the coalition he did. Conservative working-class whites may have been willing to help the needy, but fearful of being taken advantage of, they wanted a tough guy in charge. The impetuous young Bobby helped make the grownup Bobby more compassionate...
...Crimson did just what it wanted to do and dominated from the start. Freshman attacker Mickey Cavuoti, still hot from Saturday's six-goal performance which earned him Ivy League Player and Rookie of the Week honors, shredded the Wildcats' defense with his quick moves towards the cage. Cavuoti netted a hat trick in the first quarter to give Harvard a 3-0 lead...
...number-one singles match, Bland dropped a tough three-set decision to Gardner, the nation's 34th-ranked player. The Harvard senior dropped the first-set, 6-2, rallied to take the second, 6-2, but fell in the finale...