Word: championship
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...American League West, had to wait for torrential rains on the East Coast to stop to find out that they would oppose Boston. As the race in the A.L. East squished to a conclusion, Boston finally buried the Orioles. The two pennant winners will square off for the championship-and the victors' share (estimated at $20,000 per player) of World Series loot...
Muhammed Ali retained his World's Heavywight Boxing Championship by scoring a technical knockout over Joe Frazier in the fourteenth round of their scheduled fifteen-round grudge match in Manila, the Phillipines...
...telling his readers that he and his wife and four daughters were sitting next to the Loch picnicking on "milk, potato sticks, lambs' tongues, shortbread, white chocolate, Mini-Dunlop cheese." Another article is about a basketball game McPhee played in some time ago. Another, about a white-water canoeing championship, spends much of its time talking about the kinds of canoes McPhee paddled in as a child and how he went about entering the races himself. Usually this kind of stuff--the journalism of self-indulgence--works only when the person writing it has a notoriety sufficient to make anything...
Moscow does not suffer defeat graciously-at least if its treatment of Boris Spassky is any clue. Since his 1972 loss to Bobby Fischer in the battle for the world chess championship, Grand Master Spassky, 38, has been snubbed by the Soviet government, denounced by Pravda and denied visas for travel abroad. Recently, however, all that has begun to look like a minor prelude to the latest problem Spassky's government has created...
...Innovators have loaded the game with enough gimrnicks to make it sometimes unrecognizable. The championship series in World Team Tennis, won last week by the Pittsburgh Triangles, was played on a court without white lines. Each section was a different color-from brown to blue. Scorekeeping can be perplexing, particularly when it comes to tie breakers. This year Forest Hills has dropped the sudden-death tie breaker, but the replacement, a twelve-point tie breaker in which the winner must beat his opponent by two points, could go on even longer than the set it is supposed to shorten...