Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fusco, the Harvard hockey team's all-time leading scorer and a member of the United States Olympic Team this year, made a bet with fellow Harvard man and Olympian Lane MacDonald...
...Unbeknowst to me, they made this bet last summer," Janfaza says. "I talked to Lane on Christmas Eve. I found out about the bet. I had two goals at the time, but I had just been [moved up to the first line]. I had this feeling...
...Crimson, which sports a 12-game winning streak, is almost a sure bet to win its second straight Ivy and national championships...
Though the birds are the center of attraction during the day-long events, cock-fighting isn't all that goes on at a cockpit. The arena, which resembles an American boxing stadium, comes wildly alive during the five-minute betting interval before each fight. Unlike at the track, where betting simply involves buying a ticket at a window, placing a bet at a cockpit requires complicated hand signals and lots of shouting and screaming. Bets are set through informal bookies, who earn a healthy commission...
...Sport section for six years, though he professes to be neither an athlete nor a rabid fan. "I bring a tempering influence to our coverage," he says. "If it's too 'inside' and I can't understand what we're trying to say, it's a pretty good bet lots of our readers won't understand either." Preparation for the Calgary Games required that Ferrer take time away from his other responsibilities: editing the Law, Religion, Press and Education sections. He enjoys the change of pace. "Major events give readers a sense of TIME's strengths," he says of this...