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...sportswriters called him the Brown Bomber, the Dark Destroyer, the Sepia Slugger, the Mahogany Maimer, the Chocolate Chopper, the Tan Tarzan of Thump. These were far more than sobriquets. As Chris Mead observes in his enlightening biography, Champion, Heavyweight Joe Louis Barrow could never be a mere titleholder. He was always an emblem...
Mead peels off these labels and traces Louis' career from the early days in a Detroit ghetto to the sad years of deterioration. Pugilism came easily to Louis, but he was not a natural celebrity. His advisers remembered that the previous black champion, Jack Johnson, had ruined his career with temperamental outbursts and interracial romances. Accordingly, they merchandised Louis' innate dignity and sold him as a shy family man given to choice utterances like "He can run, but he can't hide" and, during World War II, "We are on God's side." The champion did not disappoint his public...
...Bears’ four-game sweep of defending division champion Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H., gave the Crimson extra leverage in the Red Rolfe Division race. By sweeping aside Brown—which sits a game back of first place—next weekend, Harvard would clinch at least a tie for its first division crown since...
Princeton, the 2004 Ivy League champion, grabbed the title for the second consecutive year...
Sophomore Cindy Shin of Yale won the competition with a total score of 230, one stroke ahead of second-place finisher Meg Nakamura of the champion team, Princeton...