Word: breland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sports that ABC has not highlighted in prime time, when attracting an audience is most urgent, coverage has tended to be a little more balanced. Boxing Reporter Howard Cosell spoke enthusiastically about athletes from a variety of nations and led the way in pointing up U.S. Welterweight Mark Breland's first-bout unsteadiness. Equestrian Commentator Tad Coffin, a former U.S. gold medalist, described the multinational contenders in his sport with impressive authority and fairness. (Soviet coverage has been more one-sided than ABC's: its state-run TV has carried no footage at all of the Games...
...tower beside standard-size welterweights, Breland is a legendary eater and metabolic wonder who has yet to battle the scale. "I can have ten pancakes at a time," he says. "Then I walk about ten blocks and have to stop some place to eat." A roofer's son, one of six children who grew up in Brooklyn's grim Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, Breland never found boxing particularly fearsome. "I like pain," he says breezily. "Before a fight, I am so hyped up I just want to bust. Everything boils...
Reversing the usual course, he has already had a major acting role in a motion picture, portraying a persecuted black military cadet in The Lords of Discipline. According to Manager-To-Be Shelly Finkel, a rock-music producer, Breland's future has been plotted along these lines: a gold medal in Los Angeles, five or six lucrative years on the world boxing stage and a subsequent career in the movies. Reportedly, a threeyear, $2 million contract from Paramount Studios has been rejected. But the first trappings of wealth have arrived: cousins. "I have so many cousins these days, they...