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Figure Skating: The U.S. men's trio of Brian Boitano, Chris Bowman, and Harvard's Paul Wylie will be in the medal run. The women--led by Debi Thomas and Jill Trenary--are also impressive. But the 1984 gold medalist, East German Katarina Witt, is still the favorite...
...women, headed by Tamara McKinney and 1984 gold medalist Debbie Armstrong, might fare better than the men. But then again, the Swiss may have other ideas...
Those are not the words of Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder, the football speculator cashiered by CBS Sports for enunciating a virtually identical sentiment in a Martin Luther King Day interview. Rather they were spoken by black Olympic Gold Medalist Lee Evans, a militant protester against white racism during the 1960s. Evans was quoted in a 1971 SPORTS ILLUSTRATED article on the purported physiological differences between blacks and whites. In that story, among many other things, experts claimed that what Coach Al Campanis more recently declared was true: blacks are less buoyant. If there are significant genetic differences between blacks...
Harvard was led in part by freshman standout Scott Jaffe, one of the world's premier breaststrokers and a gold medalist at the National Sports Festival last summer...
...names include: the Ridley Boat Club, Canada's 1984 Olympic gold medalists and last year's Head Championship Eight winners; The Rude and the Smooth, the famed '75 Harvard crew; Andy Sudduth, a 1984 Olympic silver medalist and last year's Head singles champ; and crews from Navy, Wisconsin, Oxford and--of course--Harvard...