Word: pugilistically
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Much of the credit for Spinks's mastery of the sweet science should go to Art Redden. The trainer of the LeJeune team, he lavished attention on his prize pugilist. Redden, who is a sergeant in the artillery, only began to box when he was 26, but still qualified for the 1968 U.S. Olympic team. "He just oozed self-accomplishment," DiNicola remembers. "He was kind of a tree-stump philosopher too. He said you can't just learn boxing, you have to live...
...month out of high school, the aspiring pugilist found himself in boot camp at Paris Island, N.C. DiNicola was eventually stationed at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina, where he attended East Carolina University before receiving his discharge and journeying up to Cambridge...
Traditionally held in Boston Garden, the show usually features a fight between the best boxer from South Boston and a pugilist from some other ethnic background. But this year's locale was the Boston Arena--a building so decrepit that its rats should strike for better living conditions--and the feature fight matched two black men: "Marvelous Marvin Hagler," The North American Middleweight Champion, and Guyana's Reggie Ford, the 1972 Pan-American Games champion...
Darwin, a man of great erudition, also had eclectic tastes. He wrote children's books, two works on Dickens, a guide to the historic landmarks of London, and biographies of the cricketeer W.G. Grace and the bare-fisted pugilist John Gully, who went on to be an M.P. He is, however, universally and rightly recognized as the doyen of golf writers...
...immigrant Italian barber, Sirica entered Georgetown Law School straight from high school and financed his schooling by working as an athletics instructor for the Knights of Columbus and as an occasional exhibition boxer. As a semipro pugilist, he became a friend of Jack Dempsey's and accompanied the Manassa Mauler on bond drives across the U.S. during World...