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Best football player
Tom Dixon
He-had no yards rushing, no pass
receptions and no tackles, but the
senior center from Fort Wayne, Ind.,
was a consensus All-America and
should go high in this year's NFL draft.
Best basketball player
Roy Tarpley
The 6-10, 195-pound center adopted a
more positive attitude this year and
Went on to become a dominant post-
player. Next year's resolution: Add 15-
25 pounds to his slight frame.
Best hockey team
Ann Arbor Pioneer High
School
Who says there wasn't any exciting
hockey in Ann Arbor this season? The
Pioneers won the class 'A' state cham-
pionship.
Best baseball player
Barry Larkin
The sophomore shortstop could make
the Olympic team. He's already made
Michigan baseball fans glad he passed
up a fat pro baseball contract and
numerous football scholarships.
Best athlete
Bruce Kimball
The sophomore diver repeats as Ann
Arbor's best athlete. If he repeats last
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he could bring an Olympic medal back
home.
Best dressed athlete
Antoine Joubert
The Judge's fur coat was just enough
to overtake last year's slickster, Eric
Turner.
Teams most needing
improvement
Women's basketball and
hockey teams
Both teams repeated sorry 1983 cam-
paigns with equally dismal '84
showings.
Biggest pre-game choke
Pam Wallace
Miss Wallace sang a beautiful ren-
dition of the national anthem before the
Michigan-Illinois basketball game. Un-
fortunately she forgot the words.
Most sarcastic cheer
The "silent" wave
Take a bow, Michigan football fans.
When the public addess announcer
asked them not to cheer when the ball
was in play during the Purdue game
(an effort, we are told, to squelch the
noise of "the wave"), the wise-guy fans
devised a "silent" wave, with
everything but the noise. Take that,
party-poopers.
Worst football game
Illinois 16, Michigan 6
Best defensive effort
Auburn 9, Michigan 7
Best football game
Michigan 16, Iowa 13
Bob Bergeron's last-second, 45-yard
boot will be a lasting memory in the
minds of Michigan football fans.
Most intimidating
athlete
Lynn Morozko
The women's basketball team's 6-7
Goliath struck fear in the hearts of the
opposition. Unfortunately for Gloria
Soluk's hoopsters, Morozko was struck
down by bad grades and sat out most of
the season.
Most versatile athlete
Dave Hall
Hall tried his hand at football,
basketball and track while at Michigan.
The 1983 Rose Bowl quarterback isn't
one to sit still. He's passing up a final
year on the football team to concentrate
on the decathlon.
By Jim Boyd
W HAT DID Annie Lennox do to her
hair? It's all orange. This must
be where pop-punk has come to-all
orange hair, black masks, and contor-
ted arms.
But all of these "avant-garde"
cosmetic trappings just aren't cool
anymore. Sure you can still use it to
scare your parents ("Look Ma, I think
I'm in love with her") but it is time to
look for more substantive thrills out of
the synth-pop genre. Funny hair and
bizarre sound effects are not enough to
overcome the obvious artificiality of
this music.
Well, have the Eurythmics done it,
have they found a way to justify all of
the pre-programmed synthesizers?
For the most part, no. Two thirds of
Touch is nothing more than
technological masturbation-the robot
plays with itself in the dark. Odd noises
whizz and pop and beat their way into
one's aural field just like they did for
Kraftwerk. Apparently Dave and An-
nie are still amazed by the products of
modern science, but above all else, this
kind of pre-packaged tripe is boring.
The album succeeds the minute they
stop taking themselves seriously.
Orange hair is weird and mod enough to
satisfy the most self-conscious rebel,
but it's only valuable quality is that it is
fun. When the Eurythmics have fun,
the music works. The album's most en-
joyable tunes are "Here Comes the
Rain Again" and' 'Right By Your
Side," both of which provide a nice dose
of hedonism.
"Here Comes the Rain Again" is a
piece of unpretentious, quality pop that
is just alien enough to make things in-
teresting. The melodic content is en-
joyable, if not original, and doesn't rely
on the technological gimmickry of most
of the album's other songs.
Similar is "By Your Side," a sum-
mery, Caribbean, roll-down-the-
windows kind of tune that is doing very
well in Europe and should be popular on
the airwaves here soon. There's
nothing to fear when love gets into
town quoth Annie as synthesized steel
drums play in the background. This
isn't serious, trend-setting music, but
the Eurythmics should try to do more of
it. These two songs stand out from the
rest of the album because they are
genuinely enjoyable and honest in their
lack of serious content.
"No Fear, No Hate, No Pain"
exhibits particularly well Lennox's im-
pressive vocal ability. The song
features some representative synth-pop
lyrics (When the day begins it feels like
cold, cold steel) and some nice blen-
ding of her voice with Stewart's syn-
thetic tones. From there on out it's all
downhill.
"Regrets" sums up the rest of the
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line and words like I've got a razor-
blade smile.
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wire and I'm stuck inside your head
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Michigan 's NIT party
An inspired team effort lead the Wolverines to the National Invitation
crown. They won the final at New York's Madison Square Garden against
Notre Dame, 83-63. Needless to say, the Wolverines had little trouble finding
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Worst Celebration
Michigan's win over Ohio State
It was just plain ugly. Fans crowded on the field before the game was over,
rowdies threw missiles on the field and back into the stands, and of course
the south end goal post came crashing down. Michigan did beat the
Buckeyes, 24-21, but while over-exuberant patrons were preoccupied with
their celebrating, Ohio State scored a late touchdown and nearly stole the
victory.
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