Word: championing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Second semifinal bout in the elimination tournament to find a new heavyweight boxing champion: Thad Spencer v. Jerry Quarry, live from Oakland, Calif...
Meeting with a group of baseball luminaries in the White House last week, Lyndon Johnson accepted a bat from Boston Red Sox Slugger Carl Yastrzemski, then clowned it up for photographers by faking a bunt. The action drew a telling comment from the American League batting champion. "You're too big to be a hunter," Yastrzemski chided the President. "You have to hit home runs...
Leaps & Loops. When it comes to the men, "those European judges aren't going to know who to look hard at," says Gary Visconti, 22, the defending champion at Philadelphia. First, Visconti himself was bumped into second place by Tim Wood, 19, a fellow Detroiter who barely made the U.S. national team last year. For this year's competition, Wood dropped out of school, spent seven hours a day practicing the compulsory "school figures" (loops, brackets, circle eights) that account for 60% of the score. So precise were his blade marks that he led the field when...
...that's the way it is when you're the champion. Lew Alcindor knows it; so does Vince Lombardi. And so, in his own league, does Bill Murphy...
...some tough meets for Murphy this year. Cornell and Princeton always provide stiff competition. Yet up there on the three-meter board, even against Princeton and Cornell. Bill Murphy will be competing against himself. That's why he will win. That's what it's like to be the champion...