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...humiliation of the holders, the South American champions and fancied Portugal certainly marks the end of certainties. Not since Brazil in 1966 has the reigning champion been eliminated in the first round. Not since 1962 has Argentina failed to progress to the knockout stage. And when was the last time three possible semifinalists went home this early? Try never. After last week, only a reckless fool would predict safe passage for the big names in future tournaments...
...then a strange pattern began to develop. Cotton had to keep reprimanding Lewis - for clinching, for holding, and finally, once he had clearly begun to get on even terms with Tyson, pushing - an offense which cost the champion a point when Tyson was shoved all the way down to the canvas in the fourth round. In a strange way, the roles had been reversed. Tyson, flat on his back and forlorn, looked like a fighter down on his luck, shove or no shove. Lennox Lewis, the bigger man, almost seemed an oversized bully. But, perversely enough, he started getting...
...weigh-in before tonight's highly anticipated boxing match, all 234.5 pounds of him seemed to suggest he was ready to rumble. His thick jaws working over a wad of gum, Tyson stood silently, grinning and mugging for reporters in his white shorts and white socks. The former heavyweight champion had nobody to antagonize, for the moment, anyway...
...determined that Memphis would host the boxing match. While some residents were critical of his efforts, Herenton promised to give boxing fans what Las Vegas had taken away. At 6-foot-5, eye-to-eye with Lewis, the lanky 60-year-old Herenton is himself a former amateur boxing champion who maintains he got sidetracked from his destiny - to be a headliner at the pro level. "I never got beat once I got my growth," he says, reminiscing about his days in the ring...
...NCAA provisional qualifying performance in the hammer throw and Gibson took third in both the shot put and discus. But Harvard couldn’t manage a single top-three performance on the track. The Crimson finished fourth with 77 points—more than 100 back of champion Cornell, which tallied 187 to dominate the competition...