Word: mullaney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anthony Mullaney: Draft Resistance...
...ABOUT TIME (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). In a new series, Astronauts Hector (Jack Mullaney) and Mac (Frank Aletter) are rocketed aloft faster than the speed of light-and suddenly find themselves in the Stone Age. This week, the show's third, they continue their prehysterical adventures, with Imogene Coca playing a cave frau...
Accidents Will Happen. To hear Coach Mullaney tell it, the whole thing is an accident. A onetime Holy Cross star ("I used to feed Bob Cousy"), he long ago gave up hope of competing for big-name high school players: "We hope to find diamonds in the rough," he says. One day he was chatting amiably with the mother of a freshman named Billy Blair, when Mrs. Blair blurted out: "Billy's a fine player, but have you ever heard of Jim Walker?" Then, in Laurinburg, N.C., a prep school principal assured Mullaney: "Walker is a fine boy. Since...
Right Combination. Defense is really Mullaney's brand of basketball. He developed the "combination," one of the most complicated defenses in modern basketball. Mullaney calls it "a man-to-man defense with zone principles." The Friars start out playing in a normal man-to-man fashion, but when rival players drive toward the basket, the shorter front men trade them off to the taller deep men-instead of following them in. The idea basically is to nullify a size disadvantage by forcing the other team to shoot from the outside, where height is relatively valueless. "We aren...
...Every team we play is loose. They know that all they have to do is beat us to get their names in the papers," Mullaney says, and he is so exhausted by tension that he has trouble staying awake. His boys do not seem to be worried at all. In the locker room before a game, they lounge around listening to rock 'n' roll on Billy Blair's tape recorder. Finally Mullaney stands up, snaps off the recorder. "Let's go," he says. "We've got some work...