Word: championships
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Dockery played cornerback for the championship-winning 1969 New York Jets. But during his NFL career, Dockery says his Ivy League background created more problems than opportunities...
TIGER WOODS PGA championship is his; let's hope the poor guy can finally pick up some endorsements...
...sword boat Hannah Boden as it steams out with a five-man crew from the Massachusetts coast to the Grand Banks and then strings out 40 miles of line to catch swordfish. The book brims with the expertise of commercial fishing--and is especially interesting on Greenlaw's championship knack for reading subtle changes in water temperatures to find where the fish are. The captain radiates brisk sanity and humor. Being a woman, she declares, is "no big deal" (though Greenlaw, 38, writes wistfully now and then of wanting to get married and raise children). As captain, she relies...
...when Jackie Robinson joined the team and began the historic racial integration of the sport. Reese's very public camaraderie with Robinson was crucial in dissipating the ugliness that greeted the rookie. Reese led the Dodgers to seven National League pennants and, in 1955, to Brooklyn's only world championship. He retired in 1958, after a year in the Dodgers' new home, Los Angeles...
After a full two hours of play in the championship game, there was still no score. Wow, that's excitement! No more football for me. Now I know why all those foreigners riot at soccer tournaments. They want their money back. CLAY LOOMIS Arroyo Grande, Calif...