Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ARRESTED. John ("Hot Rod") Williams, 23, star center of the Tulane University basketball team, together with Teammates David Dominique, 19, and Bobby Thompson, 21; on charges of sports bribery for allegedly shaving points (holding back to lose or to affect the margin of victory in order to win bets) in two February games; in New Orleans. A local bookie with a long criminal record and three nonbasketball- playing Tulane students were arrested on similar charges; two of the students were accused in addition of conspiracy to distribute cocaine...
...Stacy Thompson lined the ball down the line, the MIT batters' ability to get around on the ball perhaps indicating that Rubin was tiring after throwing more than 90 pitches...
...Squash Club an applicant should look "casual and sporty. You come in sneakers and maybe a white sweatshirt-something that shows you're athletic, says clerk Bernadette Thompson "You shouldn't wear a lot of jewelry or make...
...years since Thompson wrote his love/hate article about the Derby, times have changed for both the race and the country. As if in lockstep with the nation's lurch to the right and Reagan's expropriation of sport for political currency, the thoroughbred industry has undergone a speculative explosion. The Derby is only its most visible manifestation...
...What Thompson saw as the cultural disassociation of the traditional Derby from its contemporary setting has now become an economic disjuncture as well. Two years ago a yearling, completely untrained and untried, was sold for--no, I'm not fibbing--$10.2 million at the annual Select Yearling Sale at Keeneland Racetrack in Lexington, breaking all known records...