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...with the most victories in college-football history. His teams have won 23 games in a row, currently the longest winning streak in big-time college football. Bryant has taken teams to bowl games 26 times (a record); last season's Sugar Bowl appearance was the 21st consecutive postseason trip for Alabama's Crimson Tide (also a record). Under his stewardship, the polls gave Alabama the national championship six times. Bryant's teams have won 14 Southeastern Conference titles and a Southwest Conference crown...
...trade before Christmas. Lane erased the Islanders' reputation as a team that was soft on the boards. But it was the arrival of Ken Morrow, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), bearded defenseman from the gold-medal-winning U.S. Hockey Team, that sparked the Islanders' postseason resurgence. Morrow, who could become the first man ever to win Olympic gold and a Stanley Cup in the same year, bypassed the minor leagues and stepped directly into the Islanders' lineup...
...goal, Gillies' second of the playoffs, stunned the Boston Garden crowd and ended a taut, tension-wracked contest that marked the first postseason meeting ever between the two clubs...
Still, the chance for reprieve remains--a sweep of the Crimson's five remaining league games, this weekend and next, would leave them at 10-4 in EIBL competition, guaranteeing at least a tie for the league title and a postseason playoff berth...
...with verbal nuances. Reporters and columnists working for the strike-born papers seem less impressive than usual. Can it be that the role of editors in making news judgments is more crucial than writers like to admit? Or perhaps, on interim papers, reporters are like football players in a postseason Hula Bowl...