Word: upshaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Herschel Walker really that good? For all those players and all those draft picks the Minnesota Vikings gave up, Walker better run like O.J., catch like Largent, throw like Unitas, block like Upshaw and tackle like Butkus...
...premieres. In John Geist's edgy Fall from Grace, Kronos played live against the background of a tape of 18 string quartets prerecorded by the group. In Steven Mackey's Among the Vanishing, a setting of texts by poet Rainer Maria Rilke, the performers were joined by soprano Dawn Upshaw...
...Wade Boggs needs just one more hit to reach that elusive .400 mark. Here's the pitch by Steib. Sharp roller, through the legs of Upshaw. Wade Boggs has done what no other player since Ted Williams...
...things were hazy, like who was hired and who was fired, and what the ripple or tidal effect will be for the rest of this season and years to come. The Hall of Fame offensive lineman Gene Upshaw, who may not be offensive enough for a labor leader, denied the Players Association was mortally wounded. "They definitely took a hunk of flesh out of us," he said, "but we're not busted. We're still here." Announcing that the union had filed an antitrust suit against the owners' "blatant display of monopoly powers," Upshaw said, "We've tried bargaining...
...services, the National Football League games, were canceled this week by a players' strike and are scheduled to resume next Sunday in a heathen form. Desperate dreamers have been running barricades of picketing stars to get to a field where only the best have ever belonged. Players' negotiator Gene Upshaw charged, "Management is trying to bust the union." His opposite number, Jack Donlan, foresaw "six to eight weeks of hard bargaining." Meanwhile, the N.F.L. planned to count any makeshift games in the standings (in order to ensure at least an adjusted TV contract); the advertisers figured to count the audience...