Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York 2, Montreal...
...classic confrontation between a man who had it all and a man who felt he had too little: Sugar Ray Leonard, 25, the polite, boyishly handsome star of soft-drink commercials who had burst onto the boxing scene at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and then vaulted with seeming ease to fame, $25 million in purses and a professional record of 30 wins (21 by knockouts) and one loss; and Thomas Hearns, 22, the "Hit Man," mean-looking and lean as a snake, who climbed from poverty and anonymity in his home town of Detroit to-well, surprisingly modest fortune...
Leonard's victory now confirms him as a remarkable champion. He is a strange mix for a fighter, a combination of peerless skills and yearnings to transcend the brutal arena in which he displays them. When he returned from Montreal in 1976, he vowed not to be a professional fighter, preferring to go to college. But the endorsements that he had hoped would support him after his ballyhooed triumph never materialized-white athletes end up on Wheaties boxes, he bitterly asserted, blacks do not. So he took to the ring. For years, he counted his money and waited...
Still there? It's almost November now, and we are in Los Angeles (or Philadelphia or San Francisco or, heaven forbid, Montreal) for the 1981 World Series. The winner of the four-of-seven series will reign as baseball's finest team...
...Montreal 6, Philadelphia...