Word: champ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glorious performance also put in proper perspective the success of flash-in-the-pans like Bruce Lietzke, Tom Purtzer, former NCAA champ Curtis Strange, and Fuzzy Zoeller, who finished third at Inverrary. The latter's real name is Frank Urwin Zoeller but because of his poor penmanship, he took to signing his autograph F.U.Z. and the nickname stuck...
...units lost to the Quakers 4-5 and 3-6 respectively, while the epee men won 5-4. Co-captain and number one epee man Matt Simmons "shined all weekend," Major said. Simmons won two of three duels at Penn, losing only to Randy Eggleton, last year's NCAA champ...
Occasionally, a good story crops up, like that of Patrick Sweeney, assistant majority leader of the Ohio State Senate. Sweeney, an ex-Golden Gloves champ, catches a thief stealing his camera out of his car, chases him down and beats him up. When he decides to press charges, the arresting officer tells him that he wishes Sweeney had killed the poor thief--it's easier to make out a homicide report than an arrest record. Sweeney shows up in court promptly at 9 a.m. the next day. He gets heard five hours later, and walks out to find...
...trial was followed by a quick sentencing-and Claudine Longet, convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the gunshot death of her lover, Ski Champ Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich, was condemned to 30 days in the county jail. Although Longet pleaded with Judge George E. Lohr not to separate her from her three "very gentle and open" children, Lohr did not relent. To impose no jail sentence, he said, might "unduly depreciate the seriousness of the offense or undermine respect for the law." Longet chose not to appeal her conviction, but she told a phalanx of reporters that she had been unfortunate...
...connection-except that sport is a form of warfare-but 1977 will also be the year of the cinema jock. Rocky will be followed by a flurry of boxing movies: The Greatest, all about, natch, Muhammad Ali, who plays himself; Raging Bull, starring Robert DeNiro as former Middleweight Champ Jake LaMotta; and a comedy called Knockout, in which a clothes designer buys a boxer as a tax shelter. For football fans there is Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough, which began shooting in Dallas last week, with Kris Kristofferson and Burt Reynolds. Says Jenkins: "The script is really a sequel...