Word: booboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fourth game. Sacrificing a pawn early on, Spassky set up a double-barreled bishop attack on Fischer's cornered king. Staving off one mating threat after another, Fischer somehow managed to salvage a draw. In the fifth game it was Spassky's turn to make a beginner's booboo. Pressured by a knight foray, and more than an hour behind on the time clock, the champion dropped his queen back in hasty retreat. Fischer picked off a pawn with his bishop and challenged the queen, daring Spassky to take the unprotected attacking piece. If he had, Fischer would have...
...booboo piled upon booboo. it was apparent that these were two spooked teams. Both were desperately seeking vindication, the Colts for their humiliating 16-7 loss to the underdog New York Jets in the 1969 Super Bowl, the Cowboys for blowing two league and two conference title games in the past four years. What they achieved was 60 minutes of chaotic excitement in which supposed strengths became weaknesses...
...omission of Carty is the most ludicrous inconsistency in what has come to be known as "Bowie's booboo." To keep people "involved" in the All-Star game, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn decided last winter to again let the fans make the selections instead of the players. To prevent ballot stuffing, Kuhn arranged to have the voting policed and tabulated by computer. Trouble was, to allow enough time for programming the computer, managers and player representatives had to select the nominees last spring, which is about as reliable as trying to predict the Dow-Jones averages eight months...