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...tickets are such a hot item that students on campus not only have to pay $67 dollars for season tickets (most colleges, including Harvard, allow the students to attend hockey games for free), but they must camp out overnight to buy those tickets--similar to getting tickets for a Sting concert...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: College Hockey Fever ... Catch It! | 11/11/1988 | See Source »

Kicking Game: Matt LaPolice (no relation to Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland) is 10-of-13 on field goal attempts and 18-of-19 on PATs. Steve Jones (another famous name in rock) does the punting and averages 41 yards per kick with a long of 70 yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scouting Report | 11/5/1988 | See Source »

...days of Muhammed, boxing was the greatest of sports and Ali was the king. He brought to the sport his arrogance and his wit, his showmanship and his deadly punches. He brought to it controversy (his refusal to participate in the Vietnam War) and poetry ("float like a butterfly, sting like...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Sugar Ray and College Super Bowls | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

...Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) changed the game of arms control. Reagan's proposal was conceived by former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane as a great sting operation, Talbott reveals, designed to get the Soviets to trade away their heavy land-based missiles. Nitze's fervent goal was to cap his career with a "Grand Compromise" that would swap a reduction of offensive missiles for restrictions on strategic defenses. But to do this he often had to operate behind the back of the President. At the Reykjavik summit Nitze almost saw his dream fulfilled, only to have it dashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 31, 1988 | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...time Molchanov has entered the studio, oak branch in hand, Soviet viewers have been treated to brisk, taped reports on an Australian stork breeder, a Japanese horseback-riding robot and the world's largest egg. The 90-minute show also features videos from rock stars like Michael Jackson and Sting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Late Night With Alex And Dima | 10/10/1988 | See Source »

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