Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Colgate continues to be the ECAC's top representative with the number-three spot in the NCAA poll. Clarkson (14-5-1) is tied with Maine (18-7-3) in eighth place...
When one team goes undefeated, as Colorado would have if it had beaten Notre Dame, the polls stoke little debate. But when several schools can claim the top spot, the murmur begins for a national play-off of the four or eight best teams. "The championship should be decided on the field," says Mike Francesa, sports swami for CBS and WFAN radio, who favors a play-off. "But we'll never do away with the bowls. They produce a phenomenal amount of money for the teams...
...have become magnets for boatloads of tourists, who come to gawk at the peaks and the penguins. Environmentalists fear that miners and oil drillers may not be far behind. Already the human invaders of Antarctica have created an awful mess in what was only recently the world's cleanest spot. Over the years, they have spilled oil into the seas, dumped untreated sewage off the coasts, burned garbage in open pits, and let huge piles of discarded machinery slowly rust on the frozen turf...
...spot is a perfect refuge for a remnant of wilting flower children, including Zoyd Wheeler, a part-time keyboard player, handyman and marijuana farmer. Along with his teenage daughter Prairie, Zoyd still mourns the departure and later disappearance of his ex-wife Frenesi, a onetime '60s radical who was seduced into becoming a Government informer by a notoriously malevolent federal prosecutor named Brock Vond. He has apparently not finished hounding the Wheelers and others. As one observer notes, "Nobody knows just what's goin' on, except there's a nut case leading a heavily armed strike force loose in California...
...States to the gold at the Olympics in Paris, France. Todd Marinovich will win the Heisman Trophy, earning a $50,000 bonus from USC. "I'm at USC for the education," Marinovich will claim, earning chuckles from the Downtown Athletic Club paparazzi. Nike will release a Bo Knows Boxing spot. Adidas will counter with a Tyson Can Beat the Hell...