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...great upset of the evening was when the ever-unpopular Russian champ, Ivan Koloff, threw the much-loved Manchurian champ, Gorilla Monsoon, into the ropes for the count. The fans were visibly upset by the defeat of the reconstructed former villain...
...brute power of a Buck Buchanan, the quick, vicious moves of a Ray Nitschke. And when he sleeps, he dreams. Personally, I have decided to dream tonight about fat, creaky George Blanda, 43, trundling out on the field last weekend to throw two touchdown passes for the Oakland Raiders . . . Champ Clark...
...only because he has wrested the title from an Irish-American but because he has acquired a Caucasian mistress, Eleanor (Jane Alexander). A great copper statue of a man, Jefferson cannot be legitimately toppled. But he can be melted down legally. Arrested on a rigged Mann Act violation, the champ jumps bail and flees to Europe. There the bruiser becomes the bruised. The retreat starts in alcoholism and ends in a Budapest café where with aching symbolism he "lawzy me's" his way through the role of Uncle Tom on a tiny stage...
Such clanking devices would have even seemed excessive back in 1870, but restraint is a word unknown to Sackler. Jefferson refuses a standing offer to take a dive for a white champ in order to cancel out his previous "crimes." In a final Meaningful Act, he even rejects his beloved Eleanor, whom he suddenly sees as an albatross. In a scene that would shame Harriet Beecher Stowe, Eleanor's drowned body is brought onstage, and the broken Jefferson capitulates...
...recent, actually. As late as 1965, when Harvard's dominance was unquestionable, Sports Illustrated considered the Syracuse regatta little more than a runner up event, and that year, after Navy had upset the field there, the magazine ran a banner headline over its story that read-CHAMPIONSHIPS MINUS THE CHAMP. The cover showed a montage of coach Harry Parker and "The World's Best Crew," and inside, Whall was saying, "When Harvard shows up competition seems to vanish." Later than a month later, however, the Vesper Boat Club defeated the Crimson at Henley, and according to one Harvard athletic official...