Word: player
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stone, who planned the movie for more than a decade, was ready to do battle too. "Tom has the classical facial structure of an athlete, a baseball player," he says. "He's a kid off a Wheaties box. I wanted to yank the kid off that box and mess with his image -- take him to the dark side." So the kid goes off to war and sees a slaughtered Vietnamese family. In the chaos of a skirmish, he kills one of his own men. Paralyzed from the chest down, he finds his sex life over before it begins. In horrifying...
Mills, who helped lead the team to the NCAA Final Four in his freshman and sophomore years, was named the team's Most Valuable Player. Three of Mills' five goals this season were game-winners...
Reilly was awarded the Hamilton Fish Memorial Trophy as the team's most improved player...
...freshmen and sophomores who comprise the rest of the ladder aren't lacking in experience. Take, for example, freshmen Marty Clark and Josh Horwitz, both of whom have yet to lose a game this season. Their squash backgrounds are impressive, indeed. Clark was the number-one U.S. under-18 player last year. Horwitz was right behind Clark at number...
Moving up on the ladder, there's injury-plagued sophomore Fraiberg, who was ranked in Canada'a top 10 in 1988. Fellow classmate and number-two seed, Johnny Kaye was a three-time top-ranked player in Israel. Farokh Pandole, after twice winning the Indian Junior Nationals, quickly adapted to hard-ball squash last year to climb high on the ladder. And speaking of rapid adjustments, sophomore Mark Baker, a transfer student from England, adjusted to American squash faster than a rolling "O" to secure the number-one seed...