Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only about half of the delegates are expected to reveal an allegiance to a particular candidate, however. Many will sport a stand on a particular issue--the nuclear freeze or abortion, for instance--instead...
...that I don't love baseball. It is unquestionably the greatest sport in America, but that's not the point. The point is a 365-day-a-year obsession with an overrated team that's always supposed to contend for yet hasn't won a World Series since...
...this bantering does not reflect the dedication most of the Classics feel for the sport. "We do have a light-hearted approach to the game," Williams says, "but everybody here does hate to lose...
...bright sport for Harvard was the improved play of Co-Captain Jim Lubowitz, who has lost his past two matches. "I was getting un discipline." he said. "but Coach [Dave] Fish worked with me yesterday, and I felt a lot better today." He looked better too, winning three games, going for simple plays to confuse his opponent...
Davis declared this particular Raiders team to be the best of many fine ones, modestly rating it among "the greatest teams of all time to play any professional sport." And he nominated Coach Tom Flores as this year's genius. But Tom just smiled and said, "Einstein was a genius; I'm a football coach." To Flores, football is not mysterious. "The Raiders play attack football: with the bomb or the threat of the bomb on offense, with man-to-man coverage on defense. We draft and trade for toughness...