Word: championship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once Clay confined himself to spouting poetry and proclaiming "I am the greatest." Then he won the world heavyweight championship, joined the Black Muslims, changed his name to Muhammad Ali-and his loquaciousness turned to logorrhea. He railed bitterly against the U.S. war effort in Viet Nam and set out to dodge the draft...
...Crimson can move up one notch from last year's sixth in the Easterns, it will get a shot at the National Championship in March...
While everybody else was watching the side show, the Japanese were tending to business. Masashi Ouchi set a world record in weight lifting, hoisting a total of 1,003 lbs. to win the middleweight championship. Japan swept all 28 gold medals in swimming, dominated the track and field events, won first places in everything from badminton to bicycling. When the games finally ended, with a five-gun salute and the singing of Auld Lang Syne, the cool-headed Japanese had captured 218 gold, silver and bronze medals-167 more than their closest competitors...
There they stood, ranging on up to 6½ ft. tall, bulging with the kind of muscles it takes to bend a railroad spike between thumb and forefinger. Their team had already won its fifth National Football League division championship in seven years, and chances were, they could hardly have cared less that they still had one regular-season game to play against the Los Angeles Rams. So why were they doing pushups, and running wind sprints? Could it really have been because a chubby pipsqueak with glasses was screaming at them: "You don't have any pride...
...ground, another 331 yds. on pass receptions. Tight End Max McGee is 34 and has caught only three passes all year, but one of them set up the game-winning touchdown when the Packers beat the Baltimore Colts three weeks ago to clinch the N.F.L.'s Western Division championship. Halfback Paul Hornung, 30, and painfully burdened by a pinched nerve in his neck, is still, by the consensus of his fellow pros, "the greatest money player in the game." And Quarterback Bart Starr, at 32, is the No. 1 passer in the N.F.L. (156 completions in 251 attempts...