Word: championship
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...sharp serve and a deep placement shot by junior Todd Stitzer iced the game. Stitzer, a Springfield College transfer who has played in the National Volleyball Championships at U.C.L.A., hopes to organize a Harvard-Radcliffe team for the New England Volleyball Championship on March...
There may be no other Harvard coach as frustrated as wrestling mentor John Lee. In the fall practices, he had a team that looked like contenders for the Eastern championship. Now with less than ten days left in the regular season, Lee's squad may finish with a losing record...
...jitters and coasted to an 82-63 victory. Afterward, the game ball was carried off for enshrinement in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. The pressure off, Wooden and his charges returned to their quest for an even more remarkable record: a seventh straight national championship...
Since 1968, when the New York State Boxing Commission awarded him its version of the heavyweight title after he defeated Buster Mathis. Frazier had won three facsimilies of the heavyweight title without earning the professional championship of the world. Surely, neither his New York State title nor the World Boxing Association championship belt he took from Jimmy Ellis five years later made Joe Frazier the heavyweight champion in the eyes of the world...
...even after he beat Ali, Joe Frazier had not won the world championship he wanted. His victory in the ring had been decisive. He had boxed Ali to a stand-off and then out-punched him. Yet, it was precisely at that moment when Ali hit the canvas that the emptiness of Frazier's triumph became apparent: the crowd was silent, totally void of enthusiasm. When the decision was announced and Frazier stood arm-raised at center ring, he smiled alone, with difficulty and deep fatigue, in the roped summit of the crowd's ambivalence. From there, he was taken...