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Word: sport (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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College hockey is a sport which, depite the fearsome spectre of Hockey East, has never really made the big time...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Beanpot '86: A Boston Hockey Tradition Continues | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...Garden ice holding up the small pot of beans (no real beans but a damn realistic-looking pot), the crowd cheers. But the celebration is not only for the winners, although they certainly love to bask in the crowd's adulation--it is a ritual affirmation of the sport itself...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Beanpot '86: A Boston Hockey Tradition Continues | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

What's at stake in the Beanpot is the respect of the common hockey community. Only once a year do the devoted gather together to pay tribute to a sport and a city and the result is a celebration that promises only...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Beanpot '86: A Boston Hockey Tradition Continues | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

There's nothing so special and so distinctive about the Beanpot Tournament as its emphasis on the positives of sport; the players are there to have fun, in a great old tradition-filled building, with the chance to dream perchance that one day they may return proudly clad in the sweater of a professional team...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Beanpot '86: A Boston Hockey Tradition Continues | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Edge stresses that her situation is not unusual in the sport of squash and points out that "the nature of the game" lends itself to competition between men and women at any level of play. Ingrid Boyum, the number two player on the women's team, also competes against...

Author: By Helen Lee, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Racquetwoman Plays in Men's Tourney | 1/29/1986 | See Source »

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