Word: championed
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...pumps up and down and violently thrusts it at her target. "That's a savage downward shot," the announcer barks on the loudspeaker. Her rival's nut shatters, brown debris scatters on the white platform and the crowd erupts. After 30 strikes, Stone earns the title of Ladies' World Champion: she came, she saw, she conkered...
...City pantomime. It was the case of a lionhearted, but aged ex-champ conserving his strength in order to go the distance against a belt-holding opponent who has benefited greatly from boxing's fall from primacy in the West. Ibragimov did not display the stuff of a real champion. This was no collision of cultures, no epic battle, no thing to be remembered. It was a night...
Commenting on this year’s success, Rooney draws parallels to last year’s similar results. The Crimson prevailed at the Dartmouth Invitational as champion, taken second at the Yale Fall Invitational, and placed second or third at the Princeton Invitational in both this season and last season...
...good thing she did. Since then, she has become the winningest coach in Harvard history, leading the Crimson to an incredible 268-124-19 during her first 13 seasons as head coach. Most recently, the team had an NCAA tournament appearance, losing to the eventual national champion Wisconsin in a four-overtime thriller...
Howard Lederer, a two-time World Poker Tour champion, and Crandell Addington, one of the founders of the World Series of Poker, told the audience that poker—which is illegal in several states, including Texas—should be allowed to emerge from its backroom days...