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Word: champ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson, the two-time defending ITCA champ, suffered from the absence of its two senior co-captains--who are taking time off--as it struggled in the first round of the Three-day tournament. Junior Amy DeLone had the Crimson's only win, defeating Danielle Durak in number-one singles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Tennis | 10/21/1989 | See Source »

...game that could have been entitled "How to Play Field Hockey the Right Way," the Crimson (2-0 Ivy League, 3-2 overall) utilized precise stickwork, game experience and pseudo-psychic teamwork to defeat the defending Ivy champ Quakers (2-1, 4-1) to take control of the league race...

Author: By Angela M. Payne, | Title: Stickwomen Top Penn; Claim 2-1 Ivy Triumph | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...full ten years layoff from the ring and about 40 lbs. over his best fighting weight, the slugger is in training once again. His objective -- some call it an obsession -- is to recapture the heavyweight title he lost by a knockout to Muhammad Ali in 1974. Exclaims the ex-champ: "I'm ready, and I'm better than I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston, Texas A Slugger and A Dream | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...Foreman keeps mowing them down. At Pride Pavillion in Phoenix last month, Slab-of-Meat No. 18, a cruiserweight named Bert Cooper, was served up. A Joe Frazier protege, Cooper was billed as one of Foreman's toughest challenges yet. Midway in the first round, the ex-champ caught him with a right to the middle that pirouetted Cooper 90 degrees. The pummeling got worse. When the bell rang for Round 3, Cooper sagely refused to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston, Texas A Slugger and A Dream | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

These mismatches keep the adrenaline flowing and the nostalgia and hopes burning for a flock of Foreman camp followers. Archie Moore, who the record books say is 75, was light-heavyweight champ until he was at least 48. Now Moore has signed on as resident guru and gerontologist. "Ah, the wisdom and cunning of age," Moore muses. "Make the young man take three steps to your one. Smotin' power, that's what it comes down to. George can still smote, oh yes he can." Moore also knows something about losing weight. Eat all you like, he once suggested, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston, Texas A Slugger and A Dream | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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