Word: spuds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Spud Webb...
...festivities at Reunion Arena, where come March the National Collegiate Athletic Association will house its Final Four tournament. To complete the mood of a basketball world slightly out of whack, the N.B.A.'s annual slam-dunk preliminary was won by an undersize Texan, 5-ft. 7-in. Atlanta guard Spud Webb. Meanwhile, the long-range shooting medal went to a 6-ft. 9 1/2-in. forward, Boston's Larry Bird. The game that followed was overpopulated with seven-footers, but the most valuable player happened to be 6-ft. 1-in. Sprite Isiah Thomas of Detroit. Plainly pro basketball has turned...
Tired of working at odd jobs around London, songwriter/guitarist Pat Gribben, once of the Starjets, founded the Adventures in 1982. With the addition of Terry Sharpe on vocals, Spud Murphy, former Starjets producer and then road manager for Stiff Little Finger and The Boomtown Rats, on percussion, Pat's wife Eileen on backing vocals, tambourines, etc., and Tony Ayre on bass, the band began writing, rehearsing and touring...
Note: Though probably not intentionally, the Adventures have two links to the Akron, Ohio band Devo: the drummer's name is Spud, and the hats worn on the cover look remarkably like those on the cover of Freedom of Choice...
With the score tied 53-53 after Lorenza Charles' follow-up shot guard Anthony "Spud" Webb fouled Veal with 1:03 remaining. The 6-ft., 6 in. Veal a 57.1 percent free throw shooter, canned both ends...