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Both squads opened the season with two potential starting quarterbacks. The Green initially tapped Frank Polsinello, the junior who got his first varsity start in last year's Harvard game after a severe knee injury put the No. 1 QB, Rick Stafford, out of action...
...knee injury also sidelined All-Ivy punter Rick Bayless at the beginning of the Dartmouth training camp, but Yukica expects Bayless to be ready for the opener with Penn...
...Rick Sikes, 47, has been in just one prison, the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kans., where he went nearly eleven years ago after a bank robbery conviction. Unlike many inmates, he can compare prison life only with life in "the free world," where he was a country and western guitarist, and not to regimens in other joints. "For a prison," he figures, "Leavenworth is all right. It's not at all like home, and nobody likes being here. But I believe this is as good as prison gets." Still, "you got all kinds of foolish people in here...
...industriousness, to be sure?or endlessly loafing. At Leavenworth, he might do his time making pig bristles into paintbrushes, and earn about 60¢ an hour. In Texas, the director of prisons says he runs "quasimilitary operations," and his close-cropped inmates in uniform white cotton must work for nothing. Rick Sikes was eligible for a parole hearing after his first 120 days at Leavenworth, but he waived the opportunity; a second bank robbery conviction, and its 50-year sentence, await him in Texas. "I don't care nothin' for the way they do business down there," he says, and "since...
Insubordination has always been rife on Weaver's teams. He and Catcher Rick Dempsey act out their disagreements by throwing shin guards. "The only thing Earl knows about pitching," onetime Ace Dave McNally declared for all time, "is that he couldn't hit it." Weaver and Mark Belanger feuded for more than a decade, but Belanger stayed Weaver's shortstop by the grace of his bright talent until, near the end, the three-by-five cards dwindled for Belanger and eventually ran out this year...