Word: championships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dutch team, led by World Championship finalist Fred Eefting, should provide the undefeated Crimson with a much-needed challenge...
...Sunday-morning jokes after four straight losing years. Nobody has laughed very much at Alabama's expense since then. This New Year's Day No. 2-ranked Alabama plays in its 20th consecutive bowl game. The match-up against top-ranked Penn State will decide the national championship, and if Alabama wins, it will be the fifth title of Bryant's reign. It will also mark Victory No. 284 for Bryant, 30 fewer than the alltime record held by Amos Alonzo Stagg...
...dashing vulgarian, they were playing tennis with a ball last week in the sultry heat of Montego Bay, Jamaica. And McEnroe, once he settled down, was magnificent, defeating Nastase in three sets, his first tournament victory over the old campaigner. For his two hours of work at the World Championship Tennis Challenge Cup, McEnroe earned $10,000, raising his earnings to over $200,000 since he dropped out of Stanford University just six months ago, gave up washing his own socks and turned pro with a vengeance...
Lamar Hunt, the soft-spoken Texas mogul behind the pros' World Championship Tennis, feels that McEnroe's rudeness on court is really his way of goading himself on, a theory that the subject confirms. But the technique sometimes works against him. After beating Nastase last week, McEnroe faced Peter Fleming, who is ranked only 27th. And although Fleming is his best friend on the circuit, McEnroe nearly picked a fight during the match, lost his concentration and was whipped in three sets...
Sports! Photographs by Neil Leifer; text by George Plimpton; foreword by Red Smith (Abrams; 192 pages; $29.95). As a top photographer for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Neil Leifer sat in the catbird seat through nearly two decades of Olympic Games, World Series, Kentucky Derbys, heavyweight championship fights. So there is much in this huge, flawlessly reproduced collection that is born of the right time and the right place. But Leifer also sat on teetering ladders, leaned out of helicopters, strapped himself or his cameras along rails on the homestretch, or under ski jumps. Searching for the special angle, he found a special...