Word: evel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wrestling matches have proved an even bigger draw. Wrestlemania IV had a reported 900,000 takers last March (the largest audience yet claimed for a PPV event), and well-hyped ring battles like last week's Chi-Town Rumble '89 are coming almost monthly. Robbie Knievel, son of daredevil Evel, will attempt a motorcycle jump over the fountains at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace for a PPV event in April, and the supermiddleweight title fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns will be offered over PPV in June...
...with several of his undergraduate teammates both in and out of professional football. What if the 49ers had lost last week? "I'm a bad prognosticator," admits Callahan. "I went all the way to Africa to pick Foreman over Ali in 1974, and I picked the canyon over Evel Knievel the same year. Even so, this seemed like a worthy gamble...
Phil, who is friendly with nearly everyone on the tour, including the Soviets, ignored this nonsense. His mood seemed easy and contented. Downhill racing takes nerve, he said, but not much else. "I like the speed, the thrill, but otherwise it's boring," he added, "a bit like Evel Knievel on his motorcycle." He was glad that the deciding race of the season was the giant slalom, the technically most demanding of the races. Next? asked a reporter. "A summer doing absolutely no skiing," was the answer. Then Mahre, with a grin, returned to the subject at hand...
...more you learn about Ned Coll the more you are certain he is a lunatic. Looking wildly around as he speaks, waving his hands madly or clenching his fists in manic frustration, he is the Evel Kneivel of activism, a man who has performed daring stunts in the name of social causes. He fasted for 40 days to call attention to the plight of the elderly in Hartford, Conn., he walked from Hartford to Washington to debate a fuel bill for the poor before Congress, he sloshed along the shores of Rhode Island all the way to Greenwich to protest...