We will begin our national championship tribute to the University of Miami by talking about Lou Holtz, not because this is another column ripping the helpless Notre Dame coach with a lisp, you understand, but rather because it was just oodles of fun seeing him squirm at a podium on Jan.1.
“Oh, my God.”
That was the reaction of most of us to the news Tuesday that Challenger, the second of the four space shuttles in the NASA program, had exploded in midair, 74 seconds and 10 miles into what would have been its tenth mission into space.
For the third time in as many months, the University of Miami baseball team has a near head coach. Jim Morris was named the Hurricanes’ eighter baseball coach Thursday in an afternoon press conference at the Hecht Athletic Center.
Miami’s defense entered the Rose Bowl ranked 40th in the nation in stopping the run, and would appear to be vulnerable against the Huskers’ No. 1 rushing offense.
Miami’s 31-30 victory over Nebraska for College Football’s National Championship was not a matter of life and death. It was something much more important.
While you and I were entertaining ourselves and engaging in pleasurable pursuits during the recent vacation, our President, Richard M. Nixon was decimating Vietnam, destroying the constitution, undermining our Democratic system and just generally bludgeoning his way into history books with a form of terrorism internationally and nationally, not usually associated with a leader of the United States.
