Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entire Ivy league watched as sophomore Andrew Ackil lined up against his heavyweight counterpart from Brown. With the team score knotted, the outcome of this match would decide whether Harvard would force a three-way tie for second place in the Ivy League, with Brown and Cornell, or whether Brown would monopolize that sought after position...
...enlistment Jan. 30 as "something I always wanted to do," evidently found the reality quite different than what he had imagined. Perhaps the reason was, as Bowe's manager Rock Newman said, that Bowe missed his wife and five children. Perhaps it was the haircut, or that the former heavyweight champion was not allowed to box along with the other recruits. But Bowe's major malfuction may simply have been that at 29 and a multimillionaire, he has other, more comfortable pipe dreams to pursue. "I would think Riddick would like to serve his country, but in some other capacity...
MacLaurin, a member of the Harvard Freshmen Heavyweight crew team, had only registered to compete in the junior-lightweight championships, but after his record-setting performance, the score keeper allowed him to compete in the men's open category...
...conversion to the Black Muslims tested white America's fondness for him. His refusal to serve in the Army made him the Vietnam War's most famous conscientious objector and deprived him of work for three years at the peak of his craft. Then Ali returned to lose the heavyweight belt to Joe Frazier...
...conversion to the Black Muslims tested white America's fondness for him. His refusal to serve in the Army made him the Vietnam War?s most famous conscientious objector and deprived him of work for three years at the peak of his craft. Then Ali returned to lose the heavyweight belt to Joe Frazier. Leon Gast's documentary details the next step in Ali's career: Act III of a great and poignant pageant. This was the Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 fight with George Foreman in Zaire. "Ali's charisma makes the film," says TIME's Richard Corliss...