Word: championship
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Since 1900, women have competed in a basketball championship for Iowa high schools. (The NCAA championship for men did not tip off until 1919.) The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union runs this tournament and has brought women's basketball to the forefront in Iowa (all but six of the state's 503 high schools sport women's hoop teams...
...story's the same but the sport is different with another legend. The late Vince Lombardi, after his initial retirement, said he "missed the fire on Sundays," and upon returning to the pro football coaching ranks, he did little to kindle a championship in Washington...
...great ones don't always go out so great. Everyone thought Bill Russell timed his retirement from coaching and playing perfectly in 1969, with a World Championship in his pocket, but the lure of sport itself (along with some big money) coerced him back into the basketball scene. He now bides his time unglamorously as coach of the mediocre Seattle Supersonics...
Girls' basketball is an old and proud tradition in Iowa. Youngsters from such towns as Elkader, Creston and Ida Grove have been sinking baskets on makeshift barnyard courts since 1898. The first Iowa girls' championship, in 1919, was contested two decades before the National Collegiate Athletic Association organized its championship tournament for the fellas. Today all but six of the state's 503 high schools field girls' basketball teams...
...those weekends which are becoming increasingly infrequent in the sports world. Everyone that was supposed to win did. Delta State took its third straight women's basketball championship, Johnny Petraglia won his tenth pro bowling title. Seattle Slew won his fifth consecutive stakes race and the University of Southern California won the NCAA swimming crown...