Word: cups
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Diana rushed for over 1400 yards in 1981; won the Bushnell Cup, which is awarded annually to the league's outstanding player, and is currently with the Miami Dolphins. While it seems unlikely that tailback Paul Andrie will duplicate Diana's achievements, he is generally regarded as one of the top three running backs in the league...
...Australian ad agency to play the Ricardo Montalban-Juan Valdez role for Café de Rio. "Living here in Rio, I have lots of coffees to choose from," says Biggs in the ad. "And when you're on the run like me, you appreciate a good cup of coffee." The Australian Broadcasting Tribunal has banned the ad, but Café de Rio's new star will get to keep the loot this time: a reported $10,000. Biggs' next endorsement: running shoes. "When you're on the run like...
...Others, including Britain's redoubtable Sir Francis Chichester, have raced around the world from England and back. But the BOC Challenge is the first singlehanded around-the-world race to begin and end in the U.S., and in the same port that hosts the America's Cup Race...
DIED. Dean Chenoweth, 44, daredevil boat racer and four-time national hydroplane champion; of head, neck and chest injuries when a gust of wind flipped his boat while it was traveling at 175 m.p.h. during a qualifying run for the annual Columbia Cup race; on the Columbia River near Pasco, Wash. Returning several times from retirement, the "Comeback Kid" had miraculously survived one crash after another. Eventually he became one of only seven competitors who lived long enough to win more than a dozen races...
...promoting racquetball, running, touch football, fishing, drag racing, softball, horse racing, soccer, rodeos and bowling. Busch also spends millions on the teams themselves. It owns the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, paid $10 million to become the official beer of the 1984 Olympics and supports the U.S. Davis Cup team...