Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bonnie L. St. John '86 first skied four years ago on a winter vacation trip with a group of friends. She had never considered trying the sport before, she recalls, but after that first time, she says, she was "hooked...
...Weaver had an uncanny ability to uncork a brutal one-liner that could knock baseball a little bit down from its high horse. "The only guy that didn't make a mistake," he once remarked to some second-guessers, "they crucified." His ability to laugh at himself and his sport was almost unrivalled in the self-important athletic world...
This week, as always, Callahan's goal is to take the reader behind the sport scene-and into the best seat in the house...
...gulf without horizons. Union Head Ed Garvey is insistent that the players be paid out of a union-managed fund, and the owners, through the person of tough-guy Labor Expert Jack Donlan, are adamant that the policy of individual negotiations continue. Those charming fellows on the periphery of sport known as "player agents" are behind the owners this time 100%, less their customary commission, probably. Donlan says that management stands ready to part with just about as much money as the union wants, but none of the control. The question is whether the players will buckle or Garvey will...
...rumpled enough for a labor leader, never managing to appear as weary and wise as his baseball counterpart, Marvin Miller, or as old, Garvey, 42, has been taken as a lightweight villain around the sport for twelve years. "Garvey wants power," says Gene Klein, who owns the San Diego Chargers. "He's trying to put himself in the position of czar. He fell on his face before, and he'll fall on his face again." Knowing his is a face that does not exactly warm the cockles of football fans' hearts, Garvey has frequently turned over...