Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maier doesn't like to talk about his favorite sport. "I'm sort of bashful about running, because there are so many fantastic athletes on the Faculty. The one's of us who run, we're the ones who aren't very good at competitive sports...
...better than nothing, but basically it's boring." He prefers touch football, tennis, squash, skiing--and especially basketball. "I love it. I was captain of the basketball team as an undergraduate, and now they can't get me out of the IAB. It's competitive, it's a team sport, it's everything great. I had to give it up for a couple of years when I was in Bangladesh, though. They're all so teeny, it was unfair...
...base of boxing, there is something so great and so grotesque, so pure and so corrupt, it stirs you and makes you shudder. It is undefinable as a passion and indefensible as a sport. The only way boxing can be discussed is in the context of a caveman's sport, and the only way it can be understood is if you love this sport, God help...
DIED. Kim Duk Koo, 23, bruising South Korean lightweight boxer whose 17-1-1 record earned him the World Boxing Association's No. 1 contender ranking; of a brain hemorrhage suffered in a title fight with Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini; in-Las Vegas (see SPORT...
Overall, Bok has tried to keep athletics at Harvard in a proper perspective. Aware of all the possible pitfalls in a pre-professionalism-type of athletic atmosphere. Bok, like Giamatti, supports a healthy, though not too competitive athletic program in which students play mainly for the enjoyment of the sport. "I do certainly have recollections of not only the great joy of athletics," Bok says, adding "but also of the problems and tensions that can be posed if athletics demand too much of people...