Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scored a touchdown to keep his league lead in rushing (1,322 yds.), and set a team record for the most yards gained in a season. For the fifth time this year he carried the ball more than 30 times. Small wonder that Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium blooms these days with banners proclaiming OKOYE COUNTRY. Thanks in large part to Okoye's heroics, the 7-6-1 Chiefs have a shot at the play-offs that begin Dec. 31. "That would be nice," says Okoye, who gives startling meaning to the term humble giant. "I like to see happiness...
...known black lawyer and antiapartheid campaigner in the city of Durban, was driving home when he stopped to help four men whose pickup truck had apparently broken down. According to an affidavit given to the police, the men abducted Mxenge, drove him to a field outside a nearby soccer stadium, stabbed him repeatedly and then left him to die in a pool of blood...
...editor Wendy Henry by the publisher, Robert Maxwell. Earlier in the year, the editor of the Sun (circ. 4.2 million) apologized in print for a story alleging that drunken Liverpool soccer fans had "viciously attacked" rescue workers after 95 fans were crushed to death at a crowded soccer stadium in Sheffield. The wildly exaggerated story spurred a boycott of the paper in Liverpool. The Sun, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was already reeling from a $1.8 million out-of-court settlement with rock star Elton John after falsely accusing him of using the services of a male prostitute...
Well, not all of them, but seven of the Crimson's graduating seniors will be flying to Japan for the Epson Ivy Bowl in Tokyo's Yokohama Stadium December 23. Former Cornell Coach Maxie Baughan will lead a team of 40 elite Ivy League seniors into battle against a Japanese all-star squad...
...remembered how I would have reacted in high school to someone who actually went to the Harvard-Yale game. There was a time when I was repulsed by the mere idea that thousands of Harvard and Yale students and alumni would really fill a stadium to cheer about how great their school was and how the other school sucked, while a few big guys down on the field ran around and tackled each other all afternoon...