When he famously got a home run taken away from him for having too much pine tar on his bat in 1983, he went from dugout to umpire in a 3.7 seconds.
The public prosecutor of the city of Brest said on Monday that tar balls found on beaches in the south of the Finistere department were probably from the wreck.
But Marcus Paige dropped in a short jumper that put the Tar Heels on top 67-59 before a media timeout with 3:03 to go.
To get an idea of where it may take us, we have only to look North to Canada and the impact of the tar sands on the strengthening of Canadian economy.
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Joe DiMaggio sat on the tar of the playground, with his back against the wall on the Powell Street side, his legs cocked in front of him like a couple of pickets.
Balls of tar washing up on the beach would make any real estate deal tougher.
Casting elongated shadows in the ghostly gleam of headlights, the men pulled on tar-stiff overalls and knee-high rubber boots and set to work.
The new law also requires manufacturers to list tar and nicotine content on packets.
There, arrayed in front of him, chasing that city softball, laughing at each other, tearing up their shoes on the tar, were the boys who were personages in his life -- apart from his family, it was almost everybody who mattered.
Coming off the viaduct I saw gravel glistening on the wet tar, thrown off by a farm vehicle.
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This apparent emphasis on one type of TAR tool in favor of all others, is a throw the baby out with the bathwater approach that seems ill advised.
It was a time when phrases like "scrip, " "black lung" and "mining disaster" fell from the lips of workers, wives and children like the tar-colored dust that settled on their windowsills.
Germans will tar and feather these abusers later on.
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Clive Bates, director of the anti-smoking charity Action on Smoking and Health, told BBC News Online that the whole concept of low tar cigarettes was a "complete confidence trick" played on the consumer.
If completed, it would transport tar sands mined in Canada to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Tar balls and oily water were spotted on Monday near the mouth of Lake Pontchartrain, a large lake to the north of New Orleans, in Louisiana.
There is oil aplenty of other sorts (tar sands, liquefied coal and so on), so the stuff is unlikely to run out for a long time yet.
Earlier this month, the Alberta government brought out a 20-year plan for the greening of the tar sands, which, while light on details, showed more than the usual resolve.
He's most famous for the so-called pine-tar incident, in which a home-plate umpire at Yankees Stadium disallowed a Brett home run on grounds that his bat bore an overly liberal coating of pine tar.
The Tar Heels (52-8) take on fourth-seeded Canisius (42-15) on Friday evening after second-seeded Florida Atlantic (39-20) faces third-seeded Towson (29-28) in the opener of the double-elimination regional.
The eighth-seeded Tar Heels (25-10) take on the winner between Western Kentucky and No. 1 seed Kansas, where Williams coached for 15 years and rang up 418 wins.
Politicians and media are going to tar and feather the company and ride it out on a rail.
"I just wanted the entire UNC community to have time to be together and reflect on this and reflect on what it means to be a Tar Heel, " she said.
Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, who will meet Mr Obama soon after his inauguration, said this week that the tar sands would be one of the stickier subjects on their agenda.
Both Mr Obama and Mr Harper made particular mention of carbon capture and sequestration, an unproven and expensive technology that could eventually be used on the coal plants that produce about 70% of American electricity, or on the upgraders and refineries in the tar sands.
The hottest dig on earth is taking place in the Athabasca tar sands, with 57 projects in the works.
The commander of the US Coast Guard in the Galveston region, Capt Marcus Woodring, said about five gallons (19 litres) of tar balls from the Deepwater Horizon leak had been found on Saturday.
But not before one of them was able to claim that while the minister was on record as saying he would defend the tar sands industry, "I have yet to hear him say that he's here to defend my future".
Oil shale and tar sands are other sources of liquid fuel that are harder on the environment than petroleum.
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