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...first time in 39 years, placekickers are no longer allowed to use a tee on field goals and extra points in collegiate games, but must kick off the ground as NFL kickers currently do. The NCAA attributed the rule change to the constantly rising percentage of successful place-kicking since the 1970s, when soccerstyle kickers became predominant...
While the no-tee rule will apply to all of collegiate football, a professional-type rule change is being considered in a few basketball conferences...
...opening of a new rap song, but anyone old enough to have endured the 1950s and '60s knows the refrain as the opening of a TV-commercial jingle for Rice Krispies cereal. Now the old standby is getting play once again as part of a popular new record called Tee Vee Toons: The Commercials. The album features such Madison Avenue jingles as Brylcreem's A Little Dab'll Do Ya, Alka- Seltzer's Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz and Noxzema's The Stripper (Take It All Off). Since its release last month, the album of musical doggerel has sold more than...
...night, the greens fees are prepaid, and meals are included. In addition to expenses, most legislators got spending money -- $1,000 to $2,000 -- for participating in one of three 90-minute panel discussions that ended at 11:30 a.m. each day so members could tee off at noon...
...arrive at such a sorry state? Traditionally, running a thrift was a relatively tranquil business. S & L managers used to follow what was known as the 3-6-3 rule: pay depositors 3%, lend money at 6% and tee up at the golf course by 3 p.m. When interest rates remained stable, the strategy worked well. But by the late 1970s, thrifts began steadily losing depositors to the new money-market funds, which were not covered by deposit insurance and paid higher interest rates...