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Though the odds on paper may not be in Harvard’s favor, the team is anxious for the rematch and believes that it has what it takes to pull an upset...
...Three decades later, the fugitive ex-champion, sought by U.S. authorities for violating U.N. sanctions on Yugoslavia (in 1992 he played a high-profile rematch with Boris Spassky in Belgrade), is whisked out of a Japanese jail where he was awaiting extradition and offered shelter in Reykjav?k. No one is too upset about this arrangement because he's clearly a sick man. His insane rants about Jews and America, his choice of a squalid, furtive life by a man who could have lived in princely admiration, his paranoia--he had the fillings in his teeth removed because if "somebody took...
...with German Boxer Max Schmeling in 1936, a Nazi journalist wrote, "It is hoped that the representative of the white race will succeed in halting the unusual rise of the Negro." His hopes were not disappointed; Louis lost to Schmeling in the twelfth round. When the American won the rematch with a one-round knockout, his countrymen exulted, but by then the jungle-killer image of Louis had become endemic. He was now compared to "a savage tiger" and "an irate cobra...
Ever since, track promoters have sought a rematch, and when it was finally set for London's Crystal Palace last week (with each woman receiving a reported $25,000 to appear), the entire schedule of the Peugeot-Talbot Games was rejiggered so that the confrontation could be seen live on American TV. For those who wondered how the Olympic race would have turned out, last Saturday's race seemed for its first half an eerie replay. Slaney (Decker married British Discus Thrower Richard Slaney on New Year's Day) took the lead from the start, as she likes...
...road. Among the top runners missing from Saturday's race was Rumania's Maricica Puica, who won the Olympic Gold Medal in 8:35.96, 3 sec. slower than Slaney's time last week. Budd, who had predicted before the race that she would lose, was glad to see the rematch over. "It has taken a lot of pressure off both of us," she said, adding that it would be at least a year before she could legitimately challenge Slaney again. But by then, the U.S. champion hinted after the race, it might be too late. After this year's racing...