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...state was West Virginia-but West Virginia breeds basketball stars as lavishly as Texas turns out football players, is the home of such slick-shooting pros as Jerry West and Hot Rod Hundley. The way the Mountaineers at West Virginia University look at it Thorn may turn out to be the best...
...school promised him plenty of spending money, another a car. Four offered to pay his way through medical school, provide free housing if he married. One even tried to tempt Thorn's father with a police job in the same county. "At first I enjoyed the attention," says Rod. "But then I decided it was sort of repulsive." He turned them all down in favor of a straight athletic scholarship to West Virginia (tuition, room and board). Besides, it was flattering when the legislature put him in a class with West Virginia's coal mines. "That," says Rod...
Look, Two Hands. Last season. Thorn was back in school, determined to get a grip on himself. Rival fans called him "Psycho" and "Bugs," but Rod refused to be rattled. "No more hysterics," he says. "No more punching the lockers. If I had a bad night-well, I just had a bad night." Thorn piled up 688 points, sparked the Mountaineers to a 24-6 season and a berth in the N.C.A.A. playoffs...
...Australia: the Davis Cup, for the eleventh time in the last 13 years, by trimming Mexico, 5-0, on Brisbane's Milton Courts. Lefthanders Rod Laver and Neale Fraser each won two singles matches; Laver teamed with Roy Emerson to defeat Mexico's Rafael Osuna and Antonio Palafox in a straight-sets doubles match that lasted only 70 min. At the closing ceremony, Mexican Captain Pancho Contreras wistfully fondled the Davis Cup, announced that his team would be back to try again. Yelled one Down Under fan, bored with yet another victory: "I hope you bloody well...
Scarcely an inkling of this filters through Rod Steiger's Ahab. He thumps, rants and bellows in good voice, but he is merely Captain Bligh, shifted from the quarterdeck of the Bounty to the dooms-deck of the Pequod...