Word: heavyweights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cashin, stroke Al Shealy and coxswain David Weinberg '74 went on to earn gold medals in last summer's U.S. national heavyweight eights in Switzerland...
...late February people were straining at the ergometers, puffing up and down the stadium steps and running circuits. During spring vacation the crew stayed in Cambridge and held double daily practices. The boat, stroked by former heavyweight crew captain, Gene LaBarre, '73, edged out Lowell House by what was to become classic Kirkland sprint finishing style, and captured the intramural House championship...
...That quirk underscores the most unusual aspect of the bout. Though he won the title 20 months ago with a cruel battering of Joe Frazier, and though he has never been defeated, Foreman is still a relatively obscure figure. For one thing, he has never faced Ali the best heavyweight boxer and one of the most colorful athletes of his generation, a man who lost his title not in the ring but in a hassle over his refusal to be inducted for military service. Foreman has, in effect, been forced to trek to Kinshasa to try to become the true...
Foreman's troubled youth has left a deep impression on him. In Kingston, Jamaica, the morning after he became heavyweight champion, 100 reporters gathered around Foreman. They expected to hear about future fight plans. Instead, Foreman simply said: "I'm going into the streets to talk to the kids and set them straight. Get them off the dope and all that bad stuff. Tell them they can make it, just like...
Boxing will indeed survive, but championship prize money will not be the same. Ali's charisma has helped a number of heavyweight opponents into the upper-income brackets. During his own career, Ali has earned more than $10 million in purses alone, not including next week's fortune. Were George Foreman fighting anyone else, the take would not be half as large...