Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They will also be tapping the deep font of goodwill toward aging sports idols. The American male wants to keep seeing athletes do what they once did best. In golf, the senior circuit earns more money than the entire women's tour. Former tennis aces draw big crowds in their own slots at the major tournaments. Boxing, aside from Mike Tyson's bum-of-the-month festival, is one big Over the Hill Gang. Last week's waltz between Sugar Ray Leonard, 33, and Roberto Duran, 38, was the top-grossing fight in history. Next month George Foreman, now bigger...
...page decision, the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously agreed with a jury verdict and subsequent judgment by U.S. Judge Walter J. Skinner after a three-week trial in July 1987. The ruling was issued December 1, but Brown's attorney said she chose not to publicize it until Thursday...
...looms as one of the biggest men on -- and well beyond -- the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, Ind. His 35-minute motivational video, Do Right with Lou Holtz of Notre Dame (price: $595), has sold briskly. The living, breathing version of Holtz is totally booked on the lecture circuit through 1990 at an estimated $10,000 per inspirational pop. Moreover, he has his own syndicated cable TV show and a national radio call-in program, and he's featured in magazine ads promoting the Holtz philosophy, paid for by Volkswagen. These things tend to happen when...
...while the Crimson seemed to have few problems tickling the twines in the Forum, a few players may have been disappointed that Harvard's scoring pyrotechnics failed to ignite the Forum's flashy electronic video scoreboards, something they rarely see on the college hockey circuit...
...encourage them to follow their own interests, one hopes with taste and grace. We probably could not change them if we wanted to. It is worth noting that each of the four former Presidents has reverted to form with a vengeance. Reagan is back on the mashed-potato circuit (raised to a world-class level), taking fat fees for propounding his doctrine of hope and reward. Carter, who always was a better missionary than a President, now has the stature and the means to tread the globe's troubled pathways relentlessly urging reform and righteousness...