Word: matchup
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...fans for calling Professional Bowlers Association games for 36 years; in Fort Wayne, Ind. Over a 60-year career, the velvet-voiced baritone covered seminal events in such sports as golf, boxing, football and horse racing. Among his most notable broadcasts: the first televised Masters tournament, in 1956; the matchup known as the greatest game in NFL history, the 1958 league championship between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts; and the perfect 10 scored by gymnast Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal...
Brown should have little trouble with Georgetown, even if the squad is more focused on the task ahead—a matchup with Harvard in Cambridge on Sept. 24—than the job at hand...
While the concept of a showdown between his employers was enticing, Ridolfi hoped his Holy Cross team would benefit from the matchup...
...torn deltoid ligament in the right ankle sustained during a Nov. 6 matchup with Princeton sidelined him for 24 games, though, so this time around, when the Rangers came knocking, Jessiman was ready to make the leap...
...Booth and later at the Roy ale on Broadway, donated for the purpose by the Shubert Organization. Among the writers who appeared were Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, William Styron, John Updike, Woody Allen and Mailer himself, who agreed to debate sometime Archrival Gore Vidal. Indeed, the Vidal-Mailer matchup was a major draw for the series, and no wonder: their previous encounters have been dramatic, head-butting and drink-throwing affairs. But the latest showdown was disappointing. "A meeting between two toothless tigers," Mailer called...