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...glad when we eliminate the word amateur from this sport," says Joe Douglas, coach of the Santa Monica Track Club and business manager for Superstar Carl Lewis. "It's a sham. If there were true amateurism in track and field, most of the athletes couldn't compete." Douglas should know. Not only can a track-and-field star like his client make as much as $1 million a year from his sport and still be eligible to compete as an "amateur," it is also possible for top-flight athletes known mostly within the sport to make perhaps...
...opposition insists, however, that it will not enter the race until the Sandinistas lift the state of emergency and relax other controls over the country. Reacting to the Sandinistas' announcement, President Reagan declared that "no person committed to democracy will be taken in by a Soviet-style sham election...
...sham, and I don't want to forget it. For most of my four years, the grass has been brown and my shower curtain has been covered with scum. I have memories of this place, some good and many bad; I want to keep them all. When I'm riding a special bus to a reunion Boston Pops concert, I want to remember the days I trudged through snow or rain because the shuttle service is insufficient. When I'm eating at the Union again, I hope I'll think about the 11 days Harvard kept me from my diploma...
Laffit Pincay, Swale's jockey and Willie Shoemaker's idea of the best rider of the present day, had been second three times in the Derby, starting when Sham chased Secretariat eleven years ago. "I thought I was destined never to win it," he said. Sham had been Bull Hancock's best hope to win it. But Hancock, a gigantic figure in Bluegrass history, died that year. He bred Derby winners, but never owned one. "It's about time," said a lovely woman with white hair, his widow...
...hypocrisies of amateurism. "We ain't pure," U.S. Olympic Committee President William Simon stated plainly before the Games began, calling for "a uniform definition of amateurism" or "being honest about it and having open Games." Citing the track-and-field trust-fund accounts as an example of "pure sham," Simon spoke of athletes "taught how to cheat" and shook his head...