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Poor Jack Riley. The winningest active college hockey coach in the nation (512 victories) saw his Army team bellyflop in its first year in Division...
...with good cause, Reagan's 49-state sweep was as resounding as it was expected; the President garnered 59 percent of the popular vote, winning the support of men, of women, of young and old, and of the rich and not-quite-as-rich. Yet the winningest President in recent years was less politically helpful than some of his lower level friends might have hoped; Republicans were able to capture only 14 seats in Congress (not the 25-30 some GOP analysts had hoped for) and actually surrendered two seats in the Senate. The relatively frayed Reagan coattails...
...winningest coach in Yale football history, Cozza enters his 20th year amidst speculation that it will be his last. Surely, Cozza has to be worth a few more victories, and surely his team will try to let him go out a winner...
LaMarr Hoyt, the junior circuit's winningest hurler in the regular season, took credit for the win, while Scott MacGregor took the loss for the birds...
When he retired only five weeks ago as the winningest college coach of all, the gentle testimonials from North and South had the unintended timbre of eulogies. Alabama Football Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant was a man whose life's work and life could scarcely be thought of separately. He died last week at 69 from a heart attack, but really a mix of illnesses that he had been fighting for three years (heroically, said his doctor), all the while he was pursuing Pop Warner and Amos Alonzo Stagg right up to his 323rd victory in the Liberty Bowl...