Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubles. It was expected that the man would poach and hit easy balls to the women." Even where winning was important, tradition and good tactics tended to give women a subordinate role. Pauline Betz Addie, now a teaching pro in Washington, remembers being teamed with Bobby Riggs in a championship mixed-doubles match when she was the No. 2 female player in America. Said Riggs: "Stand in the alley. Don't hit anything that isn't going to hit you." Recalls Addie: "We won. And that's still good advice, provided the man is a really good player...
JASON MILLER'S That Championship Season was conceived of and written in the heat of the Nixon years, and the play reflects the peculiar bitter consciousness of that era. It's no accident that all the characters are ex-atheltes, bred on the same Vince Lombardi-type homilies that powered the Palace Guard...
Four of the five starting members of a Pennsylvania high school state championship basketball team come together at their coach's house to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their greatest victory. They reunite in a grand show of cameraderie and jock-ish affection, but the strains between them and the failures of their individual lives begin to show quickly...
Havilcek said that he had never encountered any Championship Season situations himself. "You have to remember--these guys are from a town of 50,000; the town I grew up in had only about 400 people. My sophomore year the team went 4-14. We got better though; senior year we only lost one. I've lost touch with most of the guys on that team. One's the superintendent of schools out there; the other guys, I don't know what they're into...
...That Championship Season. The Loeb begins the last of its summer productions tomorrow with Jason Miller's Pultizer Prize winner. Yet another play about five people trapped in a smoky room--and this one doesn't even offer a power failure, a crazed sniper, or natural disaster as its excuse. The play deals with the reunion of four former high school basketball stars and their coach. As the evening progresses, fond memories of "that championship season" drunkenly give way to confessions of failure, infidelity and corruption...