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...doctor, who is liable either way, it is a no-win call. In 1986 Dr. Milton Sands, chief of cardiology at New Britain General Hospital, informed Central Connecticut State University that one of its basketball recruits, Tony Penny, had a serious heart problem. The school took him off the roster. Penny sued Dr. Sands for $1 million and ended up immigrating to England to pursue a career in semi-pro basketball. Two weeks ago, during a game in Manchester, he fell down on the court and, like Hank Gathers, died...
Despite finishing sixth in the ECAC regular season standings, the Harvard men's hockey team joined regular-season champion Colgate in placing two players on the first-team All-ECAC roster...
Peckham felt confident enough to fill the roster with back-up wrestlers, and Harvard came through in most of the matches up and down the scale...
...coup d'etat" and demanded a general election, but most South Koreans were not so disgruntled. The country's fractious four-party system is unwieldy and inefficient, and besides, the opposition parties themselves are largely one-man shows. If nothing else, the realignment will reduce South Korea's confusing roster of same-sounding political parties, and perhaps with it, put an end to internecine bickering in the legislature...
...wasn't long before Blades joined the roster of young Latin musicians at Fania records, the leading salsa label. In 1978 he and trombonist Willie Colon recorded the album Siembra (Seed), which went on to become one of the best- selling salsa albums of all time. Meanwhile Blades had begun to tinker with the salsa formula, replacing the horns with synthesizers and augmenting the basic Afro-Cuban beat with strains of jazz, '50s doo-wop and rock...