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...some ways UNLV goes further than many schools to fend off corruption. It falls to Warkentien, now assistant to the athletic director, to keep the players out of trouble. "I'm the damn cop, but it's an impossible job," he groans. Warkentien, ever on the lookout for illegal gifts from boosters, examines every player's monthly rent check and car titles. But in other ways the university is less vigilant. For example, school officials have formal arrangements with Las Vegas-strip casino restaurants allowing players to charge one training meal...
Somebody Call a Cop: The Penn-Harvard game almost got out of control last Friday following several altercation between Quaker and Crimson players...
LAST week the trial proceedings began for three of four men charged with the 1988 murder of Edward Byrne. A 22-year-old rookie cop, Byrne was slain execution-style while seated alone in his patrol car guarding a home in a Queens neighborhood notorious for the proliferation of drug trafficking and drug-related crime...
...spin to the usual boy-wants-to-be-ballerina plot, Tom Collins aspires to be a florist; Mom insists he become a cop. Hence ensues a barrage of typical Pudding groaners about tulips, mums and pansies. Agent Tess Tosterone leads a deft rendition of the song-and-dance, "Police Don't Eat the Daisies," with her brutal kicks and clumsy spins...
...always a tense moment when Rick Leach breaks the news to a suspect that he is not a buddy but rather an undercover federal agent. The people whom the dark-haired, soft-spoken cop arrests are usually armed, and some take the news badly: at different times, men have tried to choke or shoot the agent. And so Leach is cautious as he pulls his rented Taurus into the driveway of the Friermood hunting lodge in the midst of Texas' vast Gulf Coast wetlands one clear morning this winter. Only two weeks earlier, Leach went duck hunting with a guide...