Word: hillsborough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capacity crowd had turned out for the Football Association Cup semifinal last week at the 54,000-seat Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. As Liverpool and Nottingham Forest faced off on the field, throngs of fans without tickets poured through a gate that had been opened by police. Seven minutes into the game, a surge of spectators pushed into the packed standing room, crushing those in front against metal barriers. One of the barriers gave way, and at least 93 people were killed...
...Hillsborough State Attorney's office is trying to determine if the test can be admitted as evidence in court...
Like bookends in a trophy case, they are apt to appear opposite each other in their old schools' respective bleachers at the Hillsborough High and H.B. Plant games. At least Boggs, 27, offers a theory as to the source of his powers: he eats little else but chicken and eggs (leaving it to others to ponder which came first). As for Gooden, nobody knows exactly where he got what he has or, for that matter, precisely what...
...homers were what kept him awake all night. (He is prone to delight and insomnia.) "Sometimes in school I'd come in from right field or third base to relieve, and maybe even go back again. That was the best." Before Floyd and Dwight could be seniors together at Hillsborough, Youmans moved with his family to California. For Gooden, the mound felt lonelier than ever...
...Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis (and not, as legend would have it, to a South Pacific shark), he considered himself "not handicapped, merely inconvenienced," and worked tirelessly for 40 years to spread...