Word: championship
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Floyd Patterson, 43, gained the championship by winning a tournament after Marciano retired in 1956. Patterson lost the title to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 and then won it back in 1960, making him the first man ever to regain the championship. After two first-round knockouts by Sonny Liston, he retired in 1972. Patterson now operates an amateur boxing club and is New York's acting athletic commissioner. After he lost his title, Patterson was so humiliated that he sometimes wore disguises. Now he says: "What I've been looking for throughout my whole life I have found...
Such a ritual transfer of the championship can touch deep, unarticulated feelings. If men dread death, they also look nervously behind them as they age to see what younger people are hurrying up to replace them, not only on the job but on the planet. The passing of champions can be cathartic; it is part of the large, primitive theatrics that sports perform...
Arnold Palmer has not won a major tournament since 1964, and these days, at 48, he often fails to make the cut. But he goes on, playing 25 tournaments a year. Golfers can survive in competition longer than most professional athletes. Julius Boros, for example, first won the P.G.A. championship at 48. But as Palmer has admitted, few men go on winning past 40, and Palmer's 5 children are in college now. Despite the long I stretches between displays of his old brilliance, a battalion of "Arnie's Army" remains, believing in I him, a little like...
...Beanpot championship and a winning season are still to come and targets worth shooting for in an attempt to cross-check a frustration-laden season for Harvard hockey...
...broke nine records in the Ivy League Championship two weeks ago," coach Stephanie Walsh said yesterday. "I didn't expect the team to break any more until the Nationals in two weeks...