Word: champ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups of heavyweights slumped, exhausted, after having duked it out in the final, mad flurry. Penn, reputed to be a strong contender, had proved its worth by dethroning the perennial champ...
...with the other fake sport, wrestling." He knows about Don King. He remembers a fight up in Maine when Sonny Liston went down before Ali had put his hands up. He begins to think about what the promoters are thinking. Undefeated Bobick beats Norton, Bobick versus Ali. A white champ? Long John suddenly doesn't feel so good. And what about Harpo? With his luck, Long John known, it's more contagious than the measles...
Jimmy Connors? Brian Gottfried? Bjorn Borg? They should live so long. The tireless champ is Clarence Chaffee, 75, who dominates U.S. grass and clay courts in the 75-and-over division, and was winning matches when the parents of today's stars were in diapers. Chaffee, the retired tennis, squash and soccer coach at Williams College (Mass.), is one of the most remarkable of the 1,200 or so Super-Seniors-players who are at least 55 years old and still compete in tournament tennis. In the five years since the Super-Senior organization was founded, divisions have been...
Bells of all sorts will soon be ringing for Muhammad AH. Wedding chimes for Mr. I-Am-The-Greatest and ex-Beauty Queen Veronica Porche, 21, will sound in Los Angeles "some time in June, maybe the 10th," announced Ali last week. But the twice-wed champ seemed more concerned with bells in the ring. On May 16 he will defend his heavyweight title at Capital Centre in Landover, Md., against Spain's Alfredo Evangelista. "I think I'll get into the ring and knock him down, but I just don't know," he said with uncharacteristic...
...event. Bill Rodgers of Melrose, who astonished onlookers in 1975 by winning the Marathon in a record 2:09.55, will join the chase as well as last year's winner, Jack Fultz, a 28-year-old Georgetown graduate from Franklin Park, Pa. (Fultz's time: 2:20.19). 1976 female champ Kim Merritt (2:47.10), who was hospitalized for exhaustion after her victory, will attempt to repeat her win without any of last year's side effects. And 1974 victor Neil Cusak will lead a group of Irish runners (Mick Molloy, Danny McDavid, Jim McNamara) in this star-studded field. Others...