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Racing into the end Zone, Akins redeemed himself by doing a forward dive and puling down Allem's delivery just as it was sailing beyond his reach. The stunning catch and a successful PAT sent the two teams into the locker rooms deadlocked...
Wright voluntarily allowed the police to search his locker before they halted their investigation, Morse said...
Pellegrini adds, "The guys are great but in the locker room they all talk about how they played in the Rose Bowl or the Cotton Bowl. We like to joke that the Yale Bowl is the only bowl we got near to." "Some of the players like to tease me by saying I'm a preppy even though I was the farthest thing from a preppy at Harvard. Many others can't believe I went to Harvard." The former Kirkland House resident, however, does not think that playing in the Ivy League with deemphasized programs and no spring practices hurt...
...anxious neurotics who wonder what each night's line-up card will look like. They speculate who the next target of George's wrathful attention will be. Once it was Reggie Jackson. Now Tommy John has fallen from grace. Wistful, disgusted, the players sit in the locker room and talk pre-emptively of getting the hell out, of following Reggie to Anaheim, or anywhere. And it is still only the middle of August...
Heavyweight Challenger Gerry Cooney quotes its lines with fervor. Olympic Figure Skater David Santee trained to its triumphant sound-track music. Its plot is adapted by feature writers and by coaches for locker-room pep talks. At V.F.W. halls, in cocktail lounges, and surgical scrub rooms, Americans on any occasion of victory or defeat, no matter how evanescent, are liable to exclaim, "It's just like Rocky!" The story of the virtuous and vulnerable heavyweight, Rocky Balboa, the Philadelphia club fighter who "went the distance" (Rocky, 1976) and battled to the championship (Rocky II, 1979), has become...