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Yardlings Monroe Trout and Carrabino performed impressively in their regular season debut, splitting 26 points evenly. Trout also grabbed six rebounds, and received the season's first technical foul for dunking the ball during warm-up. Now that's a freshman mistake...
BETWEEN ROCK AND ROLL and military music there has always existed a clandestine kinship that neither relation would want acknowledged. The ancient Greeks prescribed the Dorian mode for their soldiers' warm-up music, but since then, the West has recognized martial music by its 4/4 march time--the same rhythm that, one way or another, propels the traditional rock song. Martial music is supposed to excite sentimental feelings of patriotism and community, then harness them to aggressive instincts; rock songs stir up adolescent anger and lust, and--depending on which side of 1970 you grew up on--either ignite...
...Tigers, ranked 18th in the nation this season hadn't lost to Harvard in over three years and wore their confidence conspicuously on their orange warm-up sleeves. The Elis, sporting two top-caliber runners of their own, came looking for the dark horse victory--dark blue, one presumes. Harvard had other ideas...
After that weflew to London, where I played in the Wimbledon warm-up tourney and,then, in the junior version of the granddaddy of all tennis tournaments, Wimledon. It was all really exciting, especially when Bjorn Borg was playing on the next court over. After his match ended, it seemed like the whole crowd came over to watch me. It was pretty cool...
Besides that, I even played some tennis. In the warm-up tournament, I reached the quarter s by beating the number two South African seed, Van Rensburg. Nobody even protested the match. In the real tournament I beat Matt Willander from Sweden, who was the number one 16-year-old in the world in '79, but then lost to a German named Zipfin the next round. I'll be home in the next few days. London is great, wish you were here. Howard Burlingame, California...