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Oct. 14, 2008
Sports
His last name is Green, his favorite color is blue, and he thinks the importance attached to golf’s four major championships is a “figment of the media’s imagination, Jack Nicklaus’ imagination and a few other golfers.”
Jan. 6, 1989
Herb Paterra and Ken Riley, coaches under whom the Green Bay Packers’ defense improved from 28th to 12th in the National Football League in two years, are leaving for other coaching jobs.
Jan. 1, 1986
In a round marred only by his first bogey of the tournament, Ken Green shot a four-under-par 66 on the Carmel Valley Ranch course Friday to move into first place in the $250,000 Spalding Invitational golf tournament.
Jan. 3, 1987
Television
There’ll be more Ken Minyard and Bob Arthur in the mornings and less Dr.
Sept. 7, 1988
Longtime KABC-AM (790) host Bob Arthur, who last year announced his retirement and left the station’s popular morning “Ken and Bob Company” amid much fanfare, now says that he was forced out by management because of his age and that his friend and on-air partner of 17 years, Ken Minyard, “orchestrated it.”
Oct. 4, 1991
Business
ComputerLand Corp., which last week underwent a management restructuring that put President Ed Faber in the chairman’s seat, named two company franchisees, Ken Greene and Norm Dinnsen, to the board of directors.
Dec. 17, 1985
UCLA Sports
Tailback Gaston Green and inside linebacker Ken Norton Jr. were given the Red Sanders Award as UCLA’s most valuable players.
Dec. 3, 1987
His last name is Green, his favorite color is blue, and he thinks the importance attached to golf’s 4 major championships is a “figment of the media’s imagination, Jack Nicklaus’ imagination and a few other golfers.”
Jan. 8, 1989
Ken Green, nursing a sore wrist and “not even sure I was going to play,” scrambled to a six-under-par 66 and a share of the first-round lead Thursday in the Tournament Players Championship golf tournament.
March 28, 1986