Word: digger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leading up to the Final Four in New Orleans, the National Collegiate Athletic Association news had been dominated by the candor of Notre Dame Coach Digger Phelps-"revelation" was the word used in the dispatches, but it was hardly that. He merely said that the going rate for a player on the black market, usually situated in a black neighborhood, was $10,000 per year of his college career. Phelps knew coaches who were buying, and though he named no names, the name for men who make their living cruising the ghettos and romancing children is well known. A seamier...
...McLaughlin only hints at the special tension this game must present to both McLaughlin brothers, Notre Dame head coach Digger Phelps--under whom both Frank and Tom served as assistant coaches (at different times)--is much more explicit...
...bear tracks for 20 days. God and Lady Nature have whispered in their ears and they're in absolute hibernation. My prayer is for snowflakes aplenty and rain in abundance. All these flush toilets man has created gobble up the water. To find a decent spring a digger must go down 100 feet in the valleys. Nature is telling us that man's abuse is killing the environment." Others will no doubt draw different lessons. But in a week of Inauguration and a promised new beginning, nature has again served notice of its capricious power...
...wondrously complex plot. Toward the end of the past season, for example, the twine of stories looked hopelessly snarled. Cliff Barnes, now taking his revenge as an assistant district attorney, had Jock indicted for the murder, 28 years earlier, of Southfork Ranch Hand Hutch McKinney. But voilà Digger Barnes, on his deathbed, confessed to Miss Ellie that he had shot Hutch for planning to run off with Digger's wife Rebecca, who was carrying Hutch's child-Pamela...