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...Huskie ground game could be deadly. Making the best of the 'bone, O'Leary ran for 192 yards in Northeastern's first two games. His big (6-ft., 195-lb.) fullback, Mike White, sprung for 142 yards. Tailback Ray Gee scampered for 131 and has averaged seven yards a carry...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Gridders, Huskies Ready For Dog Fight; Crimson Seeks to Take Away N.U. 'Bone | 9/26/1987 | See Source »

Honorable mention in this category goes to big Crimson offensive tackle Maurice Frilot, who delivered a devastating block late in the second quarter which sprung Phillips on a 20-yd. end around down to the Columbia four. Two plays later, Tony Hinz danced across the goal line with Harvard's final TD of the first half...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Harvard Waiting for Opportunity to Chew Up Big Red | 9/22/1987 | See Source »

Increasingly, a growing number of Americans are focusing on the doings of the huge, semisecret gospel business empires like PTL that have sprung up in little more than a decade of fervent television preaching (see following story). Many are not happy with what they see. A Gallup poll survey this spring showed that since 1980 there has been a sharp decline in American public esteem for four of the country's most important TV preachers: Oklahoma- based Oral Roberts (whose approval rating dropped from 66% to 28%), Swaggart (76% to 44%), Virginia's Pat Robertson (65% to 50%) and California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God and Money | 8/3/1987 | See Source »

Batter up! It's time for the season's first pitch to Rotisserie League Baseball, which in just seven years has grown from a rookie gleaming with promise into a full-blown phenom with all the tools. No one knows exactly how many fantasy leagues have sprung up across the country since Journalists Dan Okrent and Glen Waggoner invented the game at the now defunct La Rotisserie restaurant in Manhattan, but guesses run to more than 5,000. Statistical services catering to the voracious needs of Rotisserians, for whom the stats are the life, have flourished. There are even books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Big League Fantasies | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

...expected. A student interested in the Caribbean, computers or Classics can join an organization specifically tailored to suit his needs, and if not, he can begin one. In the last 15 years, the number of clubs on campus has nearly tripled and many esoteric groups have sprung up where none had existed before...

Author: By Heather R. Mcleod, | Title: Clubs Cater to a School of Joiners | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

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