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...Gorgeous Georgie Soccer's bad boy George Best, who died in November [MILESTONES, Dec. 5], was among the first to combine celebrity cachet with sports superstardom. His off-field antics were surpassed only by his dazzling skills as a player, TIME noted in a May 18, 1970, article...
...Schoolboys strive to emulate him. And girls by the thousands dreamily chant his name whenever he appears ... George Best is the name, and his fans hail him as the most glamorous, most electrifying soccer player ever to come out of the British Isles. Says Danny Blanchflower, a onetime soccer great in his own right: 'Best's movements are quick, light, balletic. He is a master of control and manipulation. And with it all, there is his utter disregard for danger.' Long of hair and short of temper, Best, 23, has been a marked man since 1968, when...
...Crimson could not piece together a solid run and trailed by 20 points with less than two minutes remaining. A pair of three-pointers by McCaffery chipped the deficit to 14 by the end of the game.“We weren’t seeing the open player inside,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “They were pressuring us and we just couldn’t get the ball to the inside.”Harvard tried to fight back by applying pressure to the opposition, but the Pride kept beating the Crimson...
...such a small device, the 770 is loaded with features. In the original release, its system software packaged with items such as a web browser, an e-mail manager, a news reader. It's built-in media player and Internet radio are great for listening to MP3s you transfer from a memory card, or to radio programs from the net, just by pasting a station's streaming link into the player. Subsequent system updates will ship other programs, but 770 owners can already download a universal instant messenger program plus a bunch of utilities and games, all for free...
...Reed fouling out when he did was an important thing for us," Sullivan said. "For Jimmy to come out of the hospital and take two charges right out of the bed was pretty good, especially on their most significant player...