Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DIEGO--Commissioner Peter Ueberroth called on baseball Tuesday to "show the way" for society in its battle with drugs, while teams began the slow process of rebuilding for a new season at the sport's annual winter convention...
...commissioner's traditional "state of the sport" address to the convention, Ueberroth said a successful battle against cocaine in baseball could act as "a domino for society...
While promising a drug-free sport, the commissioner said cocaine had "attacked the underbelly of society.... We have gotten a lot of publicity about it, and we have to solve the problem...
Most annoying is Cosell's chapter on Monday Night Football. He constantly describes the telecast as something that transcends sport, a program which had to appeal to more than just the Bud-toting football fan, but also to wives, children, students, and occasional sports fans. Cosell, according to Cosell, was of course the key ingredient to that recipe, and Frank Gifford, O.J. Simpson, and Don Meredith were just a bunch of dumb jocks thrown in the booth as personal favors from Roone Arledge. Cosell even has the gall to say that the only reason Gifford still...
...13th year of playing the sport, Biotti considers his greatest strength "my love for the game. I love to skate--it's in my blood," he says...