Word: championing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARRIED. Nancy Lopez, 22, champion pro golfer who in her rookie season last year became her sport's top woman moneymaker with nearly $200,000 in earnings; and Timothy Melton, 29, a sportscaster from Harrisburg, Pa.; both for the first time; in Medford Lakes...
...raised Harvard's record to 5-9-0 overall and 3-7-0 in the ECAC. Boston College, last year's ECAC champion and the number two team in the country, slipped to 7-7-0 overall and a dismal 2-6-0 in Division...
...years older and wiser, I became an Islanders fan. Then the worst team in NHL history, on January 18, 1973 they faced one of the best, the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins, who featured a couple of unknowns named Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito. While the capacity Boston Garden crowd (yes, there was a time when Bruins fans did show up for the games) laughed, the "hapless"--as every sportswriter east of the Yukon described them--Isles scored five consecutive goals, then held on for a sloppy, hilarious, transcendental, season-salvaging...
...awestruck, the Uniondale youngsters serenely survived eight must-win 1975 playoff contests, upsetting the Rangers (J.P. Parise decided the finale after 11 seconds of OT) and Penguins (coming back from a three-game deficit for only the second time in professional sports history) before bowing out to eventual Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers in seven, after winning three...
...Open records equivalent to world records for yards distances (all European pools and official world record are metric while this meet was swum on a 25 yd. course), fell during the meet--both during the German assault on the first night. Barbara Krause, world record holder and 1978 world champion in the 100-m freestyle, shattered the absent Tracy Caulkins' mark in the aforementioned opening sweep with a 49.45 clocking. She joined teammates Care Meitschuck, Sari Hulsenbeck and Weike Witt in the final event of the evening to bury the old standard in the 400-yd. freestyle relay with...