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...died of cocaine intoxication. A grand jury investigating his death has already indicted several of the young men who were with him on the last night of his life. The jurors last week began looking into a range of broader questions about the pervasiveness of drug abuse on the Terrapin team and the manner in which the university and Coach Lefty Driesell administered the varsity basketball program. The university responded last week with a number of reforms in the basketball program designed to better the academic performance of players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoring Off the Field | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...walls. And to complete the motiff, sandwiches such as the "McAdoo Big McBurger" and the Kupchak Super sub grace the menu. You don't have to know your basketball to have a good time, but make sure not to confuse Carolina with Carolina State or Tar Heel with Terrapin, or else...

Author: By William A. Danoff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In Tar Heel Country | 11/20/1981 | See Source »

Under normal conditions, the contest should have been, well, no contest for the Crimson. Two of Maryland's top players from last season graduated, and the third dropped out, leaving the usually-powerful Terrapin team a little ragged at the edges. But the bone-chilling, swirling gusts eliminated any advantage the visitors may have...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Racquetmen Edge Terps, 5-4, Despite 40-Plus MPH Gusts | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...Delmonico's in New York are not only legendary but hard to believe. Is it possible that one man could have eaten at one sitting the following: two to three dozen giant oysters, half a dozen crabs, two bowls of green turtle soup, six lobsters, two portions of terrapin, two ducks, one sirloin steak plus vegetables, and a tray of French pastry (size unknown)? It is difficult to know if this was breakfast, lunch or supper, for Brady reputedly ate six times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spoiling the Broth | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

...list of the world's great foods would have to include such Southern elegances as she-crab soup, terrapin stew, jambalaya, black-bottom pie, gumbo or pompano en papillote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH - MODERN LIVING: A Home-Grown Elegance | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

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