Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ECACs are important for three reasons. First, the match act as a surrogate Ivy League Championship, since the Conference sponsors no such battle in the spring. In fact, it is the only championship in which Ali the Ivy schools regularly play. So last weekend's results confirm what everyone already knew: Princeton is the 1980 Ivy League Champion...
...Ali might have psyched himself out. Maybe he froze when he recognized that it would take some work to regain the title. Maybe this had been his plan all along, to take the money and run. Or perhaps Ali realized early in the fight that he was going to lose, and decided it would be better to go out not fighting, than fighting hard and getting knocked...
...even though the fight was registered as a TKO, that's not really how it ended. Ali's trainer simply told his man he'd have to fight to win, and when Ali let round after round go by without even trying, a frustrated Dundee told the referee that Ali had had enough...
...know how Ali will explain his loss--his unwillingness after so much training and so much bravado to give it a real try. How can he explain that he threw only thirty punches in a ten-round fight? How can he convince us that he didn't choke, or that he had never really intended to win and just wanted to pick up $8 million in cool cash...
...give us the answer to the fan's question, where was Ali...