Word: hockey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DIEGO--Jack Kent Cooke is selling the Forum, the Los Angeles Kings hockey team and the Lakers basketball team for $67 million, the biggest deal in professional sports history, according to published reports...
Cooke, 66, built the Forum sports arena for $16 million in 1967 and bought the Lakers from Minncapolis businessman Bob Short for $5 million in 1967. He paid $2 million to the National Hockey League for the Kings as an expansion franchise...
These are difficult questions, and I can't pretend to have an answer to them. However, I react strangely when I hear about the high school All-American hockey player who was just accepted with a 375 verbal SAT score (you get 200 points for signing your name). I don't feel good when I read about hallowed high school athletes who quickly succumb to the pressures of life off the field at Harvard. They withdraw from Cambridge, perhaps never to be heard from again. They come here thinking that it will somehow all fall into place for them...
...singing ability. But the high school kid who is tops in drama won't see his name bandied about in local newspaper headlines. The Boston Globe goes so far as to publish a list of Harvard's (and other area colleges') top high school "recruits" in football, basketball and hockey. But turn to the arts section of that same paper, and you won't find a list of orchestra recruits, acting recruits or singing recruits...
...Herald-Examiner said Cooke was pressured by National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle to sell either his hockey and basketball teams, or the Washington Redskins. He is majority owner of the Redskins, and NFL rules prohibit an owner from having interests in other sports franchises...