Word: wahoo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When Chief Wahoo McDaniel of the Miami Dolphins went back to punt, the statisticians' palms got wet. How do you calculate a punting average with some kicks going for minus yardage? When Ernie Ladd got on the scales in summer camp, they had to take him out to a truck inspection station. Doctors' scales only go to 300 pounds. When Booth Lusteg went to the Buffalo Bills training camp, they were willing to take a chance because he claimed to be only 23. He was actually 27 and had no previous kicking experience. He booted the Bills to the playoffs...
...year-old daughter on a date. There is great fluttering and consternation that result in several dubious subplots involving a good-natured ex-husband (Gene Kelly), a kleptomaniac mother (Binnie Barnes) and a suitor from out West (Billy Green Bush), who is given to such admiring exclamations as "Wahoo! When you get yourself together you really get everything in the right place...
Instead he wanders from one expensive muscular pursuit to another, shooting rapids and doves, fishing wahoo and tarpon, doing each deed seriously and well with the finest equipment, at precisely the spot in the hemisphere where it is to be done best. No special portent is involved here; one of the novel's considerable virtues is that Blake's frivolous output of ergs is not intended to signify the decline of the West...
Died. Samuel Earl ("Wahoo Sam") Crawford, 88, baseball's turn-of-the-century Hall of Fame outfielder who set slugging records in the difficult days of Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and the dead ball; of a stroke; in Hollywood. "Now the game is all different," complained the Wahoo, Neb., whiz. "Then it was strategy and quick thinking, and if you didn't play with your noodle you didn't play at all." Through 19 years in both major leagues, Wahoo Sam hit enough balls that were lopsided, soaped, sanded and tobacco-stained to win league home...
...match the tackle to the fish-and watch his smoke. The 70-lb. white marlin that died like a guppy on the end of 130-lb. line suddenly came alive when the rig was reduced to 30 lb., flashing across the ocean in wild greyhounding leaps; the 50-lb. wahoo that expired without a peep on the end of 80-lb. test lived up to his name on 20 lb.; the 10-lb. bonefish that rolled belly up on 20 lb. became a raging demon on 6-lb. or better still, 4-lb. test, ripping off line so fast that...