Word: cups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Skipper Dennis Conner brought home that yachtsman's grail, the America's Cup, from Australia in February, his backers in the San Diego-based Sail America syndicate seemed to have landed a cargo of gold. The cachet of a home- waters defense in 1991 figured to pump $1.2 billion into San Diego...
Since 1958 yachtsmen around the world have informally agreed to compete every three or four years in the roughly 65-ft. boats called 12-meters (the meter designation refers to an abstruse architectural equation to which the craft must conform). But Fay proposed to vie for the Cup in a new 120-ft. K boat, a throwback to the majestic J boats used before World War II. In San Diego's light breezes, her soaring 160-ft. mast and other outsize features could give her a runaway advantage over existing defenders...
...backwinded San Diego crew at first stonewalled the challenge. Then Fay hauled them into court in New York City, home port for the Cup's original deed of gift, with an unexpected ploy. The deed specifies that a challenger may be built any old way, so long as she measures no more than 90 ft. on the waterline, which just happens to be the K boat's dimension. The deed also provides that the Cup is forfeit if the challenge is not met in ten months. After a judge confirmed these conditions two weeks ago, Sail America's Thomas Ehman...
...Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Edmonton Oilers. The Flyers had scored in the first two minutes of play and had the momentum. But late in the first period, Dave Brown's line went out onto the ice. Edmonton Coach Glenn Sather, exercising the home team's right of the last line change, sent out a line of Mark Messier, Kent Nilsson and Glenn Anderson, the team's fastest trio...
...Game 7 of the Stanley Cup semi-finals between the Edmonton Oilers and the Calgary Flames. With less than two minutes left in regulation and the score tied. Steve Smith picked up the puck behind his own goal. Smith was Edmonton's enforcer, a weak link on an Oiler team that was arguably the most potent offensive force in the history of the game...