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...those who had been vacationing at Gilligan's Island the week before. Seven days previous in Providence, after all, Harvard had knocked the league's up-and-coming power, Brown, out of championship contention. The 45-26 thrashing was made doubly embarrassing by the fact ABC had beamed the mismatch all across the cast coast...
Harvard's B team faced the A squad of Queens College (from Kingston, Ontario) and not surprisingly the visitors romped, 32-3. The C team, playing against Dartmouth's B squad, suffered a similar mismatch and dropped a 14-0 decision...
...American public learned the answer to the question in 1965, when he defended his title against Floyd Patterson. A sporting event became a religious war between Catholic Patterson and Muslim Ali. It was also a terrible mismatch between a flagging ex-champ and a cruelly derisive young titleholder. By the time of the K.O. in the 12th round, even the most bloodthirsty fight fans were sickened by the gruesome giving and taking of pain. But there was more than that to the scene. White America had seen Watts burn with a deadly rage that summer. Now there stood a triumphant...
...next head of news operations for the network. The network canceled the seventh series of bouts-scheduled to be fought in Miami Beach-stopped the tournament, and hired a special investigator to delve into the charges. Rival CBS was caught in the backlash. After promoters set up an embarrassing mismatch for CBS's boxing series, both networks-wary of viewer confidence in the sport-suspended future bouts. ABC hopes to clean house and resume the telecasts, but Don King's tourney and the future of boxing on television may be down for the full count. And ring insiders...
...stunning feat. The accomplishment seemed to breach one of nature's more inviolable barriers. Even primates as closely related as gorilla and man are so different genetically that they cannot produce offspring. Thus it was not size alone that made King Kong and his ladylove a mismatch. The real species barrier is in the genes...