Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team unloaded their one superstar for a handful of unknowns because Seaver was demanding a fattened contract. Institutional loyalty was becoming increasingly old-fashioned. The ugly truth was out: Baseball's labor and management were perfectly willing to have money play the major determining factor in the once-pristine sport...
...national tradition--a thorough examination of the art of hitting, a lengthy profile on retired great Bob Gibson. Sometimes these ramble excessively, damaged by extensive use of the first person and long, unbroken quotes. Usually, however, they provide lively, informative insights on one of infinite facets of the sport...
...sense of bravado, Cooney was not a particularly courageous child. The first step to the heavyweight championship is always a dreary staircase to some cold, terrifying gym. He did not rush to the climb. "Boxing wasn't my dream," he says. "It was just a sport to me." To his father it was something more. Gerry enjoys likening the Cooneys to the Corbetts in the old Errol Flynn movie Gentleman Jim, and he approves of the nickname "Gentleman Gerry." Had Ward Bond portrayed the father, that would have been Tony Cooney. But Bond played John L. Sullivan...
...thrilling sight of his brothers in the amateurs began to attract him to the sport. "It was so great; I just thought it was so impressive . . . being a fighter." So he gathered his courage and went out for Golden Gloves. "When I won the first time [age 16, a lanky middleweight], it came over the announcements at school [Walt Whitman High]. Sitting in homeroom, I got goose bumps all over my arms and legs...
This time Rocky, who whipped Creed to take the title in II, announces his retirement, feeling he can no longer give the sport his best shot. From the crowd on the museum steps jumps the Mohawk-coiffed, feather-bedecked Clubber Lang (played by Newcomer Mr. T, a.k.a. Lawrence Tero). The top contender harangues the champ with an intensity from somewhere beyond Muhammad Ali, demanding a title shot. Mickey, who has coached Rocky's career from the beginning, tells the fighter the awful truth: his title defenses have been against opponents he could easily whip. Lang, he suggests, would...