Word: championed
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...late Saturday night by the time Evander Holyfield had showered, answered a few questions for the press, and then wandered out of the Khodinka Ice Palace and on into the sleet-slush shadows of central Moscow. Holyfield had just tried and failed to become boxing's heavyweight champion for a fifth time, having come to the place where such things are now attempted. Sultan Ibragimov retained his WBO belt in a 12-round decision...
...shadow boxing in a ring erected awkwardly between the silks and crystal. Cameras shuttered away as the sparse Russian crowd ogled the man best known internationally for the Mike Tyson-made chunk that's still missing from the rim of his right ear. After Holyfield came Ibragimov, a champion whose humility bleeds into a bashfulness that sees him shy away from the cameras, even though he wears the belt of a champion...
...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...
...supposed to pit the Ivy League’s two best teams against each other. It did. It was supposed to be a physical battle from start to finish. It was. And it was supposed to play a huge role in deciding who will be crowned the Ivy League champion next month. But after losing, 3-2, in overtime, the Crimson is hoping it doesn’t. Despite pulling itself even twice in the final 20 minutes, Harvard could not find the necessary goal in extra time and instead had to watch Brown, coming off overtime wins over Princeton...
...mind, as visions of sitting on press row at the NCAA Tournament go dancing through my head.Is that dream a reality without the student body getting behind its team?We had 1995 students attend last season’s biggest game of the year, when eventual Ivy League champion Penn came into Lavietes at the end of February.I wonder if it’s possible to challenge the best in the Ivies without a “sixth man,” without that crowd presence that truly defines what is so special about college basketball.As Amaker said, the team...