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Word: championship (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sports Huddle fans do not take such predictions lightly. On the eve of the Miami Dolphins' 14-7 Super Bowl victory over the Washington Redskins, the Boston badmouths consulted a psychic, a bookie, two Chinese abacus experts and assorted astrologers, then correctly predicted the winner of the championship game for the fourth season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Boston Badmouths | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...players do not wholly buy his pitch, most agree with Center Len Elmore: "Lefty's the flim-flam man. It's a confidence game with him, but you buy it because he's honest about it." Now 41, Driesell is too busy chasing the national championship and overseeing sundry enterprises-the Lefty Driesell Insurance Agency, the Lefty Driesell steakhouse, the Lefty Driesell summer basketball camp, the Lefty Driesell TV and radio shows-to worry about his image. Says he: "I doubt that everybody who soldiered for General Patton liked him either, but Patton got the job done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hardwood Huckster | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...many times did golfer Bobby Jones win the United States Open? How many times did he capture the U.S. Amateur championship...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake and William E. Stedman jr., S | Title: The First Annual Crimson Sports Quizzer | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...When did the Harvard hockey team win its last Ivy League championship? What teams have won it since...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake and William E. Stedman jr., S | Title: The First Annual Crimson Sports Quizzer | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...historic upset, who upended who in the finals at Louisville? What was the starting five for the winners? The losers that year were shooting for three straight national titles. In 1961 this team crumped what Big Ten team by 20 points for the championship? What was the victorious team's nickname and who was the black bespectacled center who undressed a new Knickerbocker star in the finals...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake and William E. Stedman jr., S | Title: The First Annual Crimson Sports Quizzer | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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