Word: racquets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Other racquet sports don't fair so well in Cambridge and Flexer, the only noted Crimson badminton player, is pretty much...
...local channels now offer early-bird exercise shows. Health clubs remain popular, and Americans are also converting their homes into private gyms. They will spend an astonishing $1 billion on various devices this year, nearly as much as what is spent on equipment for ; camping, golf and racquet sports combined. Hottest items: Soloflex and other multipurpose contraptions, rowing machines, and updated versions of that old standby, the exercise cycle...
...walking away (at 25, four years ago)," he murmured, after Naturalized American Kevin Curren of South Africa overwhelmed him in three curt sets. "It's difficult not to be No. 1," McEnroe says. He felt "overpowered," not so much by Curren personally as by circumstances and Curren's modern racquet. Like everything ! else, there must be degrees of graphite. "He was hitting the ball harder than I was. I need something with a little more power." On this technological subject, he went so far as to suggest that West German Boris ("Boom-Boom") Becker, 17, the spectacular find...
Barnaby, who has been involved with the Harvard racquet sports for more than 40 years, established Crimson dynasties in squash and tennis...
...dynastic force behind men's racquet sports returned from three years of retirement in 1979 to help coach woman's squash--and has maintained both a winning tradition and a commitment to excellence with his new charges...