Word: rematch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Duran had to slim down for his rematch with Leonard. After the weigh-in at noon on the day of the fight, Duran gulped some bouillon, then went out for a steak and French fries. Later in the afternoon, he was still intensely hungry, and though his physician advised against it, he ate another steak dinner. The sudden feast after weeks of dieting may have led to the cramps. Said Dr. Nunez: "Roberto wasn't beaten by Sugar Ray Leonard. He was beaten by two sirloin steaks...
Quincy picked up its three championships in tackle football, field hockey, and women's soccer. The Q-men copped the football crown by defeating the SoHo Rebels in a rematch of last year's House Super Bowl. Not content with just the Harvard crown, the Quincy team went on to whip the Yale champions, Calhoun-Berkley, for the Ivy laurels...
...feud between Durkin and Rudman goes back to 1974, when, in a dispute over the results of the election that first sent Durkin to the Senate, Attorney General Rudman, a member of the state ballet commission, ruled against him. Durkin won the rematch with little trouble. In 1976 Gerald R. Ford wanted to appoint Rudman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, but the Senate never considered the nomination. New Hampshire Republicans remain convinced that Durkin, despite his repeated denials, prevented the nomination from proceeding...
Bougas played strong tennis throughout the day, and in a rematch of last weekend's GBC finals she overpowered Diaz for another...
...with Cornell on the three just four minutes into the game, Harvard stood bewildered at its goal line. The long-awaited rematch after last year's 41-14 humiliation in Ithaca, N.Y., seemed headed for repetition rather than revenge...