Murray plays Phil Connors, an egocentric Pittsburgh TV weatherman who, during a hated assignment covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, finds himself in a time loop, repeating the same day over and over again.

In his 1979 autobiography, Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, ranked Connors as one of the 21 best players of all time.

Kildare did not rebel himself, but incited a number of Old Irish families, led by the O ' Carrolls and O ' Connors to do so ; Surrey was however able to crush the rebellion. After 18 months he was able to secure his recall to England.

He played himself in " Hero Father " ( 1956 ) in the Robert Young television series " Father Knows Best " and made one guest appearance on the Chuck Connors television series " The Rifleman ", playing Wallace in " The Retired Gun " ( 1959 ).

The show's theme song was a modernized version of the Stompin ' Tom Connors classic, " The Hockey Song ", performed partly by Connors himself, and then transitioning to the performance of the band Rusty.

After Eddie Brock steals a vial of Curt's gene cleanser, Miles talks to the college board and plots to take away Connors ' control of the lab for himself.

McEnroe reminisces about the dressing room, including how he first met Jimmy Connors and how he would emotionally prepare himself for matches.

The show follows the adventures of Eric Cord ( John J. York ), a college student transformed into a werewolf who undergoes a quest to rid himself of his curse by killing the apparent originator of his ' bloodline ,' a drifter named Janos Skorzeny ( played by Chuck Connors in his last television role ).

* The Stompin ' Tom Connors song " To It And At It " mentions a man who " can't afford the train, he's sittin ' on a streetcar, but he's eastbound just the same.

Jimmy Connors is the only individual to have won US Open singles titles on all three surfaces ( grass, clay, hardcourt ), while Chris Evert is the only woman to win on two surfaces ( clay, hardcourt ).

) According to Charles C. Kenney, " Jack Connors remembers being in Wang's office one day when the Doctor pulled out a chart on which he had plotted Wang's growth and projected that Wang Laboratories would overtake IBM sometime in the middle of the 1990s.

Connors is also the only person to win U. S. Open singles championships on grass, clay, and hard courts.

Connors reached the final of the US Open in five straight years from 1974 through 1978, winning three times with each win being on a different surface ( 1974 on grass, 1976 on clay and 1978 on hard ).

During his best years of 1974 through 1978, Connors was challenged the most by Borg, with twelve matches on tour during that time frame.

Connors lost his stranglehold on the top ranking to Borg in early 1979 and wound up with an official tour record of 8-15 against Borg.

A low point in Connors ' career occurred on February 21, 1986, when he was defaulted trailing 2-5 in the fifth set of a semifinal match against Lendl at the Lipton International Players Championships in Boca Raton, Florida after being angered by the officiating.

Connors ' last match on the main ATP tour came in April 1996, when he lost, 2 – 6, 6 – 3, 1 – 6, to Richey Reneberg in Atlanta.

Connors was the only player to win the US Open on three different surfaces: grass, clay, and hard.

Connors was also the first male tennis player to win Grand Slam singles titles on three different surfaces: grass ( 1974 ), clay ( 1976 ), and hard ( 1978 ).

Larry Schwartz on ESPN. com said about Connors, " His biggest weapons were an indomitable spirit, a two-handed backhand and the best service return in the game.

Connors was taught to hit the ball on the rise by his teaching-pro mother, Gloria Connors, a technique he used to defeat the opposition in the early years of his career.

Segura advanced Connors ' game of hitting the ball on the rise which enabled Connors to reflect the power and velocity of his opponents back at them.

In the 1990s he joined his brother John Connors as investors in the Argosy Gaming Company which owned riverboat casinos on the Mississippi River.

This makes Wilander one of only five men ( along with Jimmy Connors, Andre Agassi, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer ) to have won Grand Slam singles titles on grass courts, hard courts, and clay courts.

So my belief that McEnroe beat Connors to become this year's Wimbledon champion is true, and I had good reason to believe so ( my belief was justified )— and yet, there is a sense in which I could not really have claimed to ' know ' that McEnroe had beaten Connors because I was only accidentally right that McEnroe beat Connors — my belief was not based on the right kind of justification.

At the start of the final, McEnroe was booed by the crowd as he entered Centre Court following heated exchanges with officials during his semifinal victory over Jimmy Connors.

Both the tune and lyrics are public domain, and many artists have released recordings of " Farewell to Nova Scotia ", including Gordon Lightfoot, The Irish Rovers, Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Anne Murray, Stompin ' Tom Connors, the Celtic punk band Real McKenzies, Schooner Fare, Wicked Tinkers, Battlefield Band, Alex Beaton,

These included the Drysdale, Kidston, Brunt, Connors, Henneberry, Moor, Norris, Sutherland, Warner, Findlay, Umlah, Yeadon, Oakley, and McInnis families, many of whom still reside in the community today.

Don Messer's Jubilee was also notable in that the half-hour television show had a regular guest performer time slot, giving rise to many important Canadian folk singers through their national exposure, including Stompin ' Tom Connors and Catherine McKinnon, among many others.

He has been writing poetry for many years and has worked with such musicians as William Parker, Susie Ibarra, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Mat Maneri, Federico Ughi, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Rob Brown, Tim Barnes and Jim O ' Rourke.

Curt Connors takes a look at " The Rock of Life " which causes a mysterious disease and causes many characters to become very angry, including Man-Wolf, Vermin, The Lizard, Black Cat, Puma and others.

Also many estate and lettings agents are situated in the Stopsley Village and Jansel House area, Connors, Haart, Taylors and Acorn Residential Lettings.

Tom Connors ' song was a deep embarrassment for many Yellowknifers who felt that the less said about the accident the better.

This day regarded as the greatest day in US open history featured the 3 set thriller women's final Evert v Navratilova and a McEnroe v Connors 5 set marathon creating the day now known as ' Super Saturday '

Although Borg is four years younger and won the last ten times they met, Connors won most exhibitions and senior tour matches against Borg, putting Connors ahead of Borg in overall wins ( see Borg-Connors rivalry ).

Connors has a tour record of 13-22 against Lendl, but Lendl is seven years younger than Connors and had a losing record against Connors until he won their last seventeen matches from 1984 through 1992, after Connors ' prime.

Connors won more matches ( 1, 337 ) than any other male professional tennis player in the open era.

In July 1983 Lendl played three exhibition matches ( against Johan Kriek, Kevin Curren, Jimmy Connors ) in Sun City, South Africa, in the apartheid-era bantustan of Bophuthatswana.

The tennis courts at the Highlands were where player Jimmy Connors began his career, and the facility hosted Davis Cup qualifying matches in 1927, 1946, and 1961.

The defining moment of Connors ' later career came when he made an improbable run to the 1991 US Open semifinals at the age of 39.

Connors ' achievement is particularly remarkable considering that he entered the Australian Open Men's Singles only twice and that he did not enter the French Open Men's Singles for five of his peak career years.

During the early part of his career, Connors frequently argued with umpires, linesmen, the players union, Davis Cup officials and other players.

After Bill Connors left the band to concentrate on his solo career, the group also hired new guitarists.

Once the title song got airplay on Jazz radio, " Starship " went gold, catapulting Phyllis ' career along with Norman Connors and Michael Henderson to new heights.

During one of these telecasts, Connors, making one of the first American TV appearances of his entire career, was brought on to perform " The Hockey Song ".