Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hockey, basketball, football, or any other sport, recruiting has come to dominate college squash. The coach who doesn't bring in the hardware guarantees himself a lifetime of learning experiences; he may be the most erudite man around, but he's not going to have a winning team...
...number, 99, an amalgam of Bobby Hull's 9 and Gordie Howe's 9 or perhaps Howe's and Maurice Richard's 9. If Wayne Gretzky is not twice the hockey player anyone has ever seen, how is he doubling all the numbers in his sport...
...sport is truly major league until the television networks and bookies say so, and neither at the moment acknowledges the National Hockey League. The New York Islanders recently won a record 15 games in a row without noticeably speeding up the nation's heartbeat. To Americans, hockey can appear an unfathomable melee of white, toothless Canadians padded like moonwalkers and armed to the gums with crooked sticks. Lately the perception of hockey as iced-over roller derby is more prevalent than ever, what with retired Philadelphia Flyer Dave Schultz (most penalty minutes alltime) regretting the hockey "enforcer...
After an extensive study this committee recommended what if called the Program for "Program for Athletic Facilities at Harvard and Radcliffe," a $30 million massive and all encompassing plan for a plush, modern sport, complex at soldiers field planners forcasted new improvements to include a new indoor swimming poll, a new hockey rink: an indoor track and tennis facility, a basketball arena placed in a renovated Watson Hockey rink: new squash courts underground lockerrooms, weightrooms and physical therapy areas connecting these new structures and the upgrading of nearly all the University's existing sports facilities...
...long run I know I have more than they do, I mean, how good are they in basketball? Can they play the flute? That's one of the greatest things about being a Harvard athlete--it means that you have more going for you than just your sport...