Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago, with Roger Clemens questionable after shoulder surgery, the Red Sox were listed as a 30-1 shot in the Las Vegas line to win the pennant...
That Mark Benning's name wasn't there was understandable. The All-America defenseman had partially separated his shoulder in previous playoff action, and there was no reason to further aggravate the injury in a meaningless game...
...cake and thick steak, afraid my blood would rot," Remar remembers. He also went overboard on his exercise program. In addition to weight lifting, biking and jogging, there was a backyard aerobics class that friends were inveigled into joining. He was so intense that he promptly injured his right shoulder...
...first, he wouldn't talk to me. Then, after some prodding by the sports information director, he consented. He sat in a corner of the locker room with a bag of ice on his shoulder. I could barely hear him when he answered my questions. And I didn't feel like asking him to speak...
...conversations he is surprisingly guarded. He often uses one-liners to deflect questions he does not want to answer. When he forgoes the quips, his replies are carefully phrased to neutralize any hint of boastfulness. He seldom initiates talk about the broken neck and shattered shoulder he suffered in combat with the Germans in Italy's Po Valley in 1945. But if pressed, he can movingly recollect how his neighbors took up collections that helped pay for his operations. Privately, Dole comes across as somewhat ambivalent about running for President, as though unalloyed ambition were a touch unseemly...