Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they will keep their pants on. Among the current applicants are an Ivy League student and a ventriloquist. At the same time, some of the club's Bunnies will don less revealing garb. About half will be outfitted in sequined gowns or dresses, while the others will continue to sport the unmistakable cottontails and ears...
...SPORT: In baseball' s time of need...
...crisp single to the opposite field, his trademark for 23 summers, Rose displaces Ty Cobb as baseball' s most prolific hitter. The long- awaited drama has an unexpected poignancy, with the great Cincinnati roughneck in tears amid a sea of cheers. Others still weep for the sport. At the Pittsburgh drug trial, no name is inviolate, not even Willie Mays...
Rooting for the Sox is a state of mind, a masochistic commitment to late-summer agony. Even so, John Cheever once surmised that all literate people are Red Sox fans. If you're not big on pain, you can still enjoy the sport for its own particular beauty, and catch one of the best hitters of our time--Wade Boggs, owner of a .346 lifetime average--in his prime...
Writers Peter Gammons (baseball), Ron Borges (football), Dan Shaugnessy (basketball) and columnist Leigh Montville are among the best in the country, and the Sunday section--which includes a notes column on each major sport--is a handy procrastination tool...