Word: championship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tigers have lost four of their last five dual meet encounters with the Crimson--including last year's 58-55 thriller on Blodgett Pool's opening day--but have still bounced back to grab the Eastern Championship meet from Harvard every time...
BRADSHAW: The week before the A.F.C. championship play-off game between the Steelers and the Houston Oilers, Pittsburgh Quarterback Terry Bradshaw was sick, and Rocky Bleier was worried. "Terry wasn't able to eat all week long, and I was concerned about how he would play," says Bleier, a running back who blocks like a lineman. "When he comes out fired up and cocky, our offense plays that way. But if he comes out tentative and unsure, we play that way too. So every day I asked how he felt." The answers were reassuring but unconvincing, until the morning...
...When the Lakers met the Knicks in the finals of the 1970 NBA Championship, what Los Angeles rookie started at guard for the injured Johnny Egan...
...DiNicola, another disappointment to my fantasies of illiterate pugilists. Rocky Balboa's mother would have wanted her son to look like Ron, handsome and unscarred. He talked about a sport he loved and one in which he had achieved considerable success. In 1975, he had won the lightweight championship of the Marine Corps, an organization whose members are noted for their willingness to battle...
Boston Garden never looked better. Every seat in the house was filled and discs bearing the names and retired numbers of Eddie Shore, Dit Clapper, Milt Schmidt and Lionel Hitchman hung in the rafters among the numerous Bruin and Celtic championship banners. Boston would play the Soviet Wings in a lopsided exhibition game later that evening, but Tuesday night belonged to Bobby...