Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America's Cup sank into a Bermuda Triangle of lawyers, loudmouths and bad losers last week. In the best-of-three event, Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes grimly fended off a rogue challenge for the jug, outsailing New Zealand in a pair of yawners off San Diego. Nearly the only exciting development was the fact that Stars & Stripes flew sponsors' logos, a Cup first. One of them, Diet Pepsi, was an apt choice for a low-calorie affair that was an embarrassing mismatch...
...committee of Cup heavyweights has proposed amending the rules so that renegade challenges and disagreements among competitors can no longer disrupt the festivities -- and the cash flow for the regatta's host city. Although Fay approves of the idea, he still intends to go back to court to challenge last week's outcome. If the judge agrees that the cat was illegal, the mug will go to New Zealand. In that case, Conner said he'd just have to go Down Under and win it back again. Maybe the next time they'll both be sailing in turkeys...
Come on...you remember now, the "Fog Game" which never was in the Boston Garden last June. Maybe now the Boston Garden will be renovated after the city lost a Stanley Cup game to the aging facilities at the Garden...
...team you still can get tickets for are the Boston Bruins. Not many people remember it these days, but the Bruins did make it to the Stanley Cup Finals last year...
After a 14- month war of words, wits and writs, the U. S. and New Zealand this week compete for the America' s Cup on the water...