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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Kentucky's awesome margin against a team ranked seventh in the country (before the game) was the result of rigidly disciplined practice sessions where players speak only when spoken to. Explains Taskmaster Rupp: "Practice is the same as chemistry class. Everybody pays strict attention." While most coaches chart players' shots at the basket during games, Rupp goes further: he has assistants busy jotting down every shot his players make in practice. One of Rupp's favorite maxims: "Shooting is to basketball what putting is to golf...
...dazzled Kentuckians who watched Rupp's team win its 88th consecutive home game might well have missed Rupp's "definite" attack, but they were convinced they had watched the No. 1 team in the country...
...major leagues elected Happy Chandler commissioner of baseball 5½ years ago when the game thought it needed friends in Washington to survive the manpower drafts of World War II. Albert Benjamin Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, had more than a toothpaste smile and a pump-handle handshake; he had good connections. Last week, with manpower drafts threatening baseball once again, the club owners could still use friends in Washington, but they had had enough of Happy Chandler...
...most famous example was Chandler's year-long suspension of Leo Durocher just before opening day, 1947. Other ranklers: the 1949 suspension of Durocher for hitting a fan (later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday night game (as offensive to "religious people"), and the Chandler project (disowned by the owners) to hire Public Relations Expert Steve Hannagan for $50,000, plus $150,000 in expense money, to "publicize" baseball's golden jubilee next year...
...Cleveland, the Browns over the New York Giants, 8-3, to avenge two earlier defeats and to take the play-off game for the National Football League's American Conference title...