Word: championships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...management of heavyweight boxer Carl "The Truth" Williams took out a full-page ad Monday in The New York Post challenging Mike Tyson to a championship bout. Let me get this straight, there was "Truth" in The Post...
...windows around the Square are displaying the latest in Harvard hockey championship t-shirts. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) honored the team on the floor of the Senate. The Undergraduate Council last Wednesday held a rally for the team on the steps of Widener. And yesterday on Opening Day at Fenway Park, in probably the most memorable of honors, Harvard Coach Bill Cleary '56 threw out the first pitch while the team crowded behind him on the pitching mound...
Another reason has something to do with the perception of college athletics. While the nation is questioning whether the NCAA and scholarship schools emphasize sports over academics, non-scholarship Harvard won a major national championship. The NCAA should spend its time publicizing what a group of student-athletes did one Saturday night in April. Maybe that would help bring back the Collegiate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association...
...next time you read about some college accused of illegal recruiting or a poor graduation rate for student-athletes, find a VCR, get a taped copy of the 1989 hockey championship game and watch Krayer score again. And again. And again...
...gave us a really inspiring pep talk at halftime," Greenberg said. "He told us we had 35 minutes to win an Ivy championship, which we'd remember for the rest of our lives. We really came out strongly in the second half...