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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 than Mount Rushmore and twice as old, will face perennial white heavyweight Gerry Cooney. Someone will get hurt -- probably the first one who throws a punch -- and people will pay to watch. Like rock 'n' roll, sports used to be a young man's game. But with the graying of America, the Stones go rolling on, and geriatric jocks are big business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Never Having to Grow Up | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

With his newly released third album, Walking With a Panther, LL takes some swings against the King of Rap's new critics. At times, LL fights like Mike Tyson on this 18-track production. Other times, however, he's Gerry Cooney...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Soft Tunes From a Hard Bragger | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

...Gerry Cooney will return to the boxing ring...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: This Bark Has a Great Deal of Bite | 4/27/1989 | See Source »

...seasons as head coach at Harvard, Cleary has amassed 298 wins and could crack the 300 mark at Colgate this Saturday night. Cleary is also only 17 wins shy of Ralph "Cooney" Weiland's record 315 wins for a Harvard coach...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Prepping for a 'Pot | 2/9/1989 | See Source »

Equally wary of the sensations of Saturday-morning television, parents are turning instead to the icons of their youth. "Parents are buying trains now instead of other electronic toys," notes Daniel Cooney, executive vice president of Lionel Trains. In 1959, Lionel was the biggest toymaker in the land. After years of languishing, the company was bought in 1986 by a Detroit real estate developer and avid collector; this year production and sales increased by 35%. The customers are "baby-boomer fathers who have spent 20 years building careers," says Cooney, "and now they are looking back at their childhood remembering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: What Do You Want from Santa? | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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