Word: betting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marsh Clark has covered some of the most famous personalities in sports for TIME cover stories. His subject for this week, however, was his biggest assignment yet-by some 1,000 Ibs. Syndicated for more than $6,000,000. Secretariat is the most valuable horse in history, a good bet to win racing's Triple Crown this month, and the first of his species to appear on a TIME cover since Native Dancer back...
...bets on most professional and collegiate sports and horse races. Last year he bet $30,000 that he could run the rapids of Idaho's treacherous Salmon River, a hazardous but successful publicity stunt...
Adams won that semifinal contest by a 10-1 count and seemed like the team to bet on for the finals. But Kirkland, behind the pitching of Bob Rosenberg, held the hot Adams House bats in check...
...Pancho Segura says that Court will learn the hard way what he and other veteran players know from long experience: "Never bet against Riggs." There was the time in 1939, for example, when the cocksure Riggs went to London, bet the bookies that he would win the singles, doubles and mixed doubles at Wimbledon-and went home $100,000 richer. Before one match with Don Budge, he strolled among the box seats placing bets with film stars and then went out and won in four sets. John Faunce, who used to hustle $20,000 to $30,000 every spring playing...
...Crimson looked like a sure bet to be selected for the national championships until it finished a disappointing ninth last week at the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association tournament...