Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that surprised, even shocked, the old alum, one aspect of the mixed racing was pleasantly familiar to him; Harvard rowed the course in the shortest amount of time. In fact Harvard's heavyweight mixed bag powered the three miles in 16 fewer seconds than Vesper, the second quickest eight...
...center field, the Dodgers' Bill North gloried in the drama: "That was the best show I've ever seen. The game's best fastball hitter up against a kid who throws as hard as anybody in baseball. It was like the 15th round of a heavyweight championship fight and you knew both guys had won seven rounds. Bob just aired it out and said, 'Hey Reggie, here it comes. If you can handle it, you deserve it.' It had to end in a home run or a strikeout...
...onto the sporting scene of several former Washington stars. Taking their cue from "The Ron LeFlore Story," former Nixon administration officials could bound from the jail cells to take over the heights of the sporting world. Scrupulous H.R. Haldeman would be the logical choice to take over the Pirates, heavyweight John Mitchell might find a home in the world of high-class professional wrestling, and sentimental Charles Colson, who once vowed that he would walk over his own grandmother if the need arose, could try his hand managing the New York Mets, whose quality of play often evokes grandmotherly epithets...
...known how to wear outside the ring. When it was over, Muhammad Ali had added another achievement to a long and extraordinary career: at 36, nearly a quarter of a century since he started to fight as an amateur, Ali became the first man to capture the heavyweight championship three times...
...strategy all along. When the fight had ended, Spinks simply and articulately summed up the reasons for the loss of a crown after just 212 days: "Maybe my heart wasn't in it because there are a lot of things on my mind, problems the heavyweight championship brought me that I didn't know how to deal with. But who knows? I don't know myself...