Word: sport
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...improvement elated his admirers. Others pointed out that at least 70 fighters have died as a result of injuries over the past decade, and the issue was raised again last week of whether boxing should be allowed at all. British researchers have called for the abolition of the sport. In 1983 the American Medical Association carried an article in its journal stating that "the principal purpose of a boxing match is for one opponent to render the other injured, defenseless, incapacitated, unconscious . . . Boxing, as a throwback to uncivilized man, should not be sanctioned by any civilized society...
...team, which provides its own transportation because it is a club and not a varsity sport, left Cambridge at 5 a.m. Saturday morning in six cars...
...Bernal, who replaces Steve Pike at the helm of the five-year-old varsity program, it's going to be a return to the sport he coached at New York's Fordham University before coming to Cambridge...
...Harvard men's sailing team this weekend collected the season's first major victory of any sort in any sport...
...felt proud when I read George Plimpton's account of the Haitian marathon runner Dieudonne Lamothe, who came in last [SPORT, Aug. 27]. As a Haitian, I am accustomed to reading only bad reports about my people. Lamothe at least finished the race, which more than a quarter of the runners failed to do. After all, the point of the Games is to participate...