Word: digger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NOTEBOOK: All those who watched UCLA upend top-ranked Notre Dame, 54-50, caught a glimpse of Crimson coach Frank McLaughlin on the College Basketball Report at halftime. McLaughlin, interviewed as one of Digger Phelps' former assistant coaches at Notre Dame who now heads his own coaching staff, referred to Harvard as "the greatest academic institution in the world." Crimson Stats HARVARD 76, BROWN 57' at the IAB HARVARD FG FT REB ASS PF TP Mannix 0-0 2-2 1 1 1 2 Coatsworth 2-7 0-0 9 1 4 4 Allen...
...tapped in his second year--all returning. Yet Penders decided to abandon this Xanadu on Broadway for the basketball wasteland of the nearby Bronx. He took the visionary gamble, betting he would be able to recreate the Shangri-La splendor that was Fordham basketball back in the days when Digger Phelps held sway...
Walk-ons occasionally make it in Ivy League basketball, but don't count on it at Harvard with bigtime Digger Phelps-disciple Francis X. "Frank" McLaughlin moving into his second year. Harvard upset Penn at the dungeon-like IAB last year, signaling the shape of things to come. By the time the class of '82 has graduated--assuming McLaughlin stays--former doormat Harvard will have joined Penn and Princeton as Ivy powers, and maybe as a national power...
...story of an Orwellian attempt (in 1981) to turn Britain into a fascist state, led by a fanatical Muslim group riding high on Arab oil and abetted by some of England's leading politicians. The conspiracy is defused by Bill Ellison, a brilliant Fleet Street digger whose investigative team resembles the London Sunday Times's muckraking groups. Salisbury gives his improbable tale crackling credibility-and is already working on a sequel...
...show, the Duke basketball team arrived at the hotel the crowd jammed into the lobby and chanted "We Got the Fever, We're Hot We Can't Be Stopped," as the individual players filtered through the doors Soon the song changed to "We Don't Give a Damn About Digger, Digger Digger Phelps (three times), We're from D-U-K-E, Duke." As expected, Notre Dame will be Duke's first-round opponent next weekend in St. Louis...