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...football oddsmakers-and many bettors-this has been a season of cruel and unusual punishment. The pain began in September, when such perennial powers as Miami, Dallas and Washington suffered multiple losses, while New England and St. Louis, those longtime door mats, tripped everyone in sight. Then, midway through the schedule, just as the experts were beginning to believe in the upstarts, the old guard reasserted itself, and a new set of misfits including Houston and Cleveland battered the betting line with upsets. By last week the N.F.L. was a bookie's nightmare; a platoon of likely and unlikely...
...Midway through the second half, Radcliffe forward Karen Linsley iced the game for the home team. Linsley, Radcliffe's most consistent and valuable performer, scored the Crimson's third goal after a flurry of Radcliffe shots had been turned aside. This score was a tribute to the constant offensive pressure which Radcliffe had applied throughout the game...
Sloppy and unsettled passing characterized the level of play in the first half. Neither team produced any good scoring threat though the Jumbos did score midway through the half in a free-for-all at the goal mouth...
...Wheels," club officials beamed. "With a name like that you're just what we need." The admiration was mutual. Wheeler, 29, thought that the Wheels offered the chance he wanted to end his career playing in his home town. It did not work out that way. Midway through the season the Wheels went bankrupt, and until he was picked up by the Chicago Fire last week, Wheeler had no career...
...just a single stick of dynamite tossed through a window of the Midway Elementary School on Campbells Creek Road at 3:30 one morning last week, and it caused only about $1,500 worth of damage. But the explosion, plus a renewed school boycott and a desperate trip to Washington by a fundamentalist delegation, all served notice that the textbook trouble in Kanawha County, W. Va., will be around for some time...