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...medal in the Winter Games. Records are not immaculately kept on the point, but apparently it was 1980 before U.S. Bobsledders Willie Davenport and Jeff Gadley, along with their Canadian counterpart Bob Wilson, broke the color line. Several more black athletes will compete in Calgary, including Canadian Hockey Player Claude Vilgrain. If part of the problem is lack of black involvement in winter sports, that is changing too. E. Rory Flack, 18, is the most prominent of a growing number of black athletes following Thomas' lead. At a Cleveland exhibition last year, Flack was one of some 70 skaters...
...Sting. Several years ago he said that he hated to play the guitar and that he was much more of a jazz bass player. But he has done "Roxanne" and "Message In A Bottle" on the acoustic guitar for years ever since the Secret Policeman's Other Ball recordings appeared...
...Captain Diana Edge, Harvard's number one player and a three-time All-Ivy selection, was presented with the coveted Betty Ritichie Award--an honor symbolic of an all around outstanding person in women's intercollegiate squash--last Sunday....Swimmer Scott Jaffe astounded the crowd at the Princeton and Harvard swim meet last Saturday with a record setting performance in the 200-yd freestyle. Jaffe's 1:36.72 in the 200-yd. freestyle established a new Harvard record as well as qualifying him for NCAA competition. The old record was set by Bobby Hackett in 1981 and, fittingly, Hackett...
Quote of the Week: "Basically, we nixed them. It was a gunfight and we brought a cannon."--Harvard squash player Jim Masland, referring to Seth Handy's 3-2 comeback over his Franklin & Marshall counterpart which gave the racquetmen a 5-4 victory...
...Olympic team features two players--MacDonald and Bourbeau--who are taking a year off from their studies to play for the squad, plus another--Fusco, the Hobey Baker award winner in 1986 as the nation's top collegiate player--who recently graduated...