Word: wurf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wednesday, March 20, Crimson Sports Editor Nick Wurf traveled to Duluth, Minn. to begin covering the Harvard men's hockey team's NCAA quarterfinal service with the University of Minnesota-Duluth (UMD). On Thursday, a column he wrote appeared in The Crimson, describing Wurf's first impressions of the city...
...following dav, that article was reprinted in Duluth's News-Tribune & Herald. Some of Wurf's less-then-complimentary comments caused a small furor in the town of 100,000. He was lambasted in the local press, highlighted on Duluth evening television news, and the night of the hockey game, an enormous banner was displayed by some fans, proclaiming that "Nick Wurf is uncouth...
...controversy resumed when the News-Tribune & Herald discovered that Wurf had received a $33 speeding ticket during his stay in Duluth. This news put Wurf on the front page and fanned the flames of the issue...
...took offense. I don't think his observation, which was likely motivated by personal bitterness, was constructive; it reflected more about him than it did about the city. That's probably a lot like what Duluthians were thinking when they designed a banner just for me last week: "Nick Wurf is uncouth...
...trouble that I had recognized in my room, by myself, had now manifested itself, times 5637. The crowd began to chant: "Who's Nick Wurf...