Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball has always been regarded as a pure sport. Grace and elegance have been the game's trademarks. With well-trimmed, greengrass playing fields and blue skies, a day at the ballpark has always had an air of refinement about...
...coronation fit for Don King. Earlier in the evening Mike Tyson had won a unanimous decision over Tony Tucker, thereby making Tyson the first fighter in a decade to be simultaneously recognized as the World Heavyweight Boxing champion by all three of the sport's ruling bodies: the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council and the International Boxing Federation. So to mark the occasion, Promoter King decided to mount a "throneization" at the Las Vegas Hilton. With Actor Dennis Hopper, Comic Eddie Murphy and former King of Boxing Muhammad Ali in attendance, King presented Tyson with a blue chinchilla...
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...high school, young Larry was not quite the he-man Marine in miniature. His extracurriculars were less than swashbuckling -- science club, chess club, drama club, senior chorus, monitor squad. In sports, as in other things, what he lacked in natural talent he made up for in perseverance. Although his class numbered only 35, North was on neither the football squad nor the basketball team (he did sit on the bench, though, as a basketball statistician). Instead, he took up a sport in which his determination could overcome his lack of natural skills: cross-country running. "He was a plugger," recalls...
...interested in high-scoring games, then Arena football is your sport--the teams are scoring more than 45 points at will...