Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reassertion of his uniqueness as an athlete. Leon Spinks' fight was a cry of confusion, a constrained attempt to retain a title he had not known how to wear outside the ring. When it was over, Muhammad Ali had added another achievement to a long and extraordinary career: at 36, nearly a quarter of a century since he started to fight as an amateur, Ali became the first man to capture the heavyweight championship three times...
...there was the prospect of ending his career as a defeated fighter, no longer the champion he had dreamed of being since he was twelve. And there was the challenge of bringing his body back into condition to fight-really fight, not rope-a-dope-a powerful champion eleven years his junior. Leon Spinks, on the other hand, was overwhelmed by the new status he had so frantically sought. The privations of a ghetto background had suddenly been replaced by $3.75 million purses. The gap-toothed young street fighter was, overnight, the biggest man in sports. There were cars, women...
...versatility included, as he admits, a powerful talent for getting fired, and for 'maneuvering himself into situations where honor and restlessness demanded that he resign. He was also good at spending money. The result was that his career continued to take peculiar turns-the commercial fishing venture, for instance-well after he had achieved what for an other man would have been professional security as a flyer and writer...
...crowd at Harvard Stadium. The last Columbia victory in Cambridge came in 1961 when the Lions were led by a sinewy guard named Bill Campbell. Campbell returned as Columbia's head coach on Saturday to pronounce his team's win "the greatest victory I've had in my coaching career...
Halfback Wayne Moore got the drive started with an 18-yd, jaunt around right end which only foreshadowed what turned out to be by far the best day of his Harvard career (97 yards on the surprisingly low total of five carries). With the ball on Harvard's 35, Brown then hit tight end Paul Sablock all alone on a crossing pattern to bring the ball into Columbia territory...