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...love to see the basketball team open with a win tomorrow night, but UMass is tough and I'll settle for a packed house, a couple of Brian Banks's slam dunks, and just one Glenn Fine behind-the-back fastbreak assist...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: All-Ivy Grid Selections Add Insult to Injury | 11/30/1977 | See Source »

...danger is that the ruling will make some newspapers gun-shy about running certain stories," says Jack Nelson, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Adds Investigative Reporter Carl Bernstein, of Watergate fame: "There is just that much more risk that you'll end up in the slam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prying Out Sources | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

DIED. Clifford Roberts, 84, co-founder and president of the Augusta National Golf Club and for 43 years chairman of its prestigious Masters Tournaments; by his own hand (gunshot); in Augusta, Ga. A New York City investment banker and ardent amateur golfer, Roberts teamed up with Grand Slam Champion Bobby Jones to help launch the latter's "ideal" golf club in 1930. While its Masters Tournaments became well-attended sports classics, the austere, irascible Roberts kept Augusta National an exclusive golfing sanctuary for its 200-plus members. Among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 10, 1977 | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

Last night, Dusty Baker provided the Dodgers with their second grand slam home run in as many post season games as Los Angeles evened its series with the Philadelphia Phillies with a 7-1 triumph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Royals Destroy Yankees in A.L. Opener, 7-2; Dodgers Click, 7-1, Draw Even With Phillies | 10/6/1977 | See Source »

...treated the crowd at Chavez Ravine to its only thrill of the night with a grand slam in the seventh that knotted the score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phillies Outslug Dodgers, 7-5; Schmidt Delivers Game Winner | 10/5/1977 | See Source »

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