Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teams. Since 1946, the Mt. Washington Wolfpack has won 185 games, lost only nine. Last season they were undefeated; this year they have already knocked off Virginia (20-8), Johns Hopkins (13-8), Army (15-14) and the Washington, D.C., Lacrosse Club (15-4). Their only loss: to Collegiate Champion Navy, by the score...
...expecting their third child, and bothered by his back, which was aching so badly that he wore a special orthopedic lift in one shoe (his right leg is 1 in. shorter than the left). Nicklaus, however, was the 4-1 betting favorite over the likes of four-time Champion Arnold Palmer (6-1) and South Africa's Gary Player (8-1), who had worked himself into a fine frenzy for the Masters by lifting weights, eating wheat germ, and boning up on Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking. Pealed Player: "I'm playing...
...Louis, Cardinal Manager Red Schoendienst was beginning to wonder whatever had become of the world-champion team that he distinctly remembered inheriting from Johnny Keane. In four games, the best the Cards could manage was a tie with the Chicago Cubs. Groaned Schoendienst: "I've got a headache...
Cook it rare. At post time, the odds on Bold Lad were 1-2-despite the fact that last year's two-year-old champion had raced only once since last October, had never run around two turns, or gone the 1½-mile distance of the Wood. He had been laid up all winter with painful "splints," tumor-like growths on his shinbones. Nonetheless, he had won six straight stakes and $392,996, and odds makers already had installed him as the 8-5 favorite to win the Kentucky Derby May 1. Nobody paid much attention to Isador...
Finishing under the shadow of the spectacular new Prudential Center, whose time broke the old course record by two minutes, led a team of Young Japanese to five of the first six places. Only Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium, the defending champion, managed to sandwich himself amongst the Asian horde. He finished fourth, losing his chance to win his third straight Marathon...