Word: uecker
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...other hand, every big-league hitter knows that sometimes you have to lay off a pitch. That's the case with "Major League (1989), a minor-league effort that features Tom Berenger as a broken-down Cleveland Indians catcher, Rene Russo as the Woman He Loves, and Bob Uecker as, well, Bob Uecker. How bad is this film? "How's your wife and my kids?" is the best line of the movie...
...wonder if Bob Uecker ever got to watch that Dateline expose on America's microbreweries...
...Beanpot. Boston's elite inter collegiate sports tournament. A time when Bob Uecker's words that "Sports carve out their own wonderful universe" come to life. A time when the best come to play. And, of course, a time for rugby...
...hackneyed television beer commercial--Bob Uecker, Billy Martin and John Madden for Miller Lite--demonstrates the appeal of men sitting around in a bar, watching football and baseball, just being "one of the guys." Beer companies have fully recognized the selling power of the sports-as-male-bonding phenomenon...
...Games is a 24-year-old plasterer from Cheltenham, England. Michael Edwards, also known as "Eddie the Eagle," points his toes downslope and fearlessly launches himself on some of the shortest flights known to man. A sweet-tempered cross between fictional Ski Jumpers Spuds MacKenzie and Bob Uecker, Edwards finished dead last (but at least not dead) in the 70-meter jump. He scored with the media and the great unfit majority tuning in with his cheerfully loony answers. (His favorite skier? John Paul II.) After Edwards' promotional appearance at a nightclub, we-are-not-amused British Olympic officials stamped...