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...second round, Muscatine and Dizenfeld trounced the Middlebury representatives, 10-2, then proceeded to take apart the pair from the University of New Hampshire, 10-2, in a tune-up for the finals...
...that swamp, without which a prison movie is not complete and where we have all done too much hard time. Finally, a compromise is reached. Reynolds will organize, coach and star on a team of inmates who are supposed to give the guards a tune-up game. Naturally, he recruits every psychopath in the slammer for his squad. Naturally, the game itself turns out to be more pier brawl than football-cruel but perhaps funnier than nice people like to admit. Naturally, when it looks as if the prisoners will win, Reynolds is asked to-and almost does-throw...
...safely 40 yards away, breaking his own world's truck-jumping record. All of which was better than he did in Dallas last February, when he cleared only eleven trucks and broke his back. Despite his $65,000 fee, Knievel's Toronto show was clearly only a tune-up for the big one: his planned 4,871-ft. leap across Idaho's Snake River Canyon on Sept. 8 in a steam-powered Sky Cycle. While New York Congressman John Murphy sought legislation to ban coverage of Knievel's ultimate caper over network TV, "where...
...hoping to take a good crack at them," coach Jack Barnaby said of the Tigers. "We can drop them into a tie for first with Penn and we'd share third with Columbia with a win Saturday. This New England tourney was a great tune...
...Harvard lightweight crew, in a tune-up for next week's big race with Princeton, rowed to its third straight victory of the season, crushing Navy and St. Catherine's of Canada by one and three-quarters lengths on the Charles Saturday...