Word: sport
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Crew wasn't the only sport in which Winthrop showed its strength. After jumping off to a slow start in tackle football with a tie for third, the Puritans whipped off firsts in touch football, wrestling combined basketball, and swimming...
...What Winthrop had was tremendous balance in every sport," Floyd S. Wilson, director of Intramural Athletics, said, "and that was their secret to winning...
...lost to the Philadelphia 76ers in the National Basketball Association play-offs last year and finished a distant second to the 76ers in the N.B.A.'s Eastern Division this season. Over the long haul, the Boston Celtics might be the most successful team in the history of pro sport, but now they were over the hill. Their coach and center, Bill Russell, was 34. So was Guard Sam Jones. Forward Bailey Howell was 31; Captain John Havlicek was a youngster at 28. It sounded mostly like pride talking when one Boston player said: "What difference does it make...
Newest thing in outdoor knockabouts is an informal hybrid that has yet to gain a name. Stubby, raffish, minimal, it is obviously designed for sport...
Last week politics once again took precedence over sport. Meeting in Lausanne, the executive board of the International Olympic Committee unanimously voted to withdraw South Africa's invitation to compete in next October's Mexico City Olympics-provided a majority of the I.O.C.'s 71 members agreed. They...