Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bernstein, however, feels that the varsity letter just complements the letter grades she's received so far. "The really great think is that Harvard softball is no longer taken as a joke. Even as a club-sport we were out there to play and excel, as ourselves, as athletes; but most important as a team. We did that; all the varsity status does is propel our position to another level...
...thing we didn't do is lose most of our humor and with it our comraderie. Last year, as a club sport, we made mistakes, played alot, and still had a fun time--I'm happy it continued...
...Coach Kit Morris, she notes. "He has all the patience and perseverance to mold our team from a mediocre club sport to a winning varsity one. Kit made us practice at 7 a.m. every February morning. He said if we really wanted to win this is what we had to do. We practiced more indoors in the preseason than all of last year outdoors. he was right. It paid off--he's a superb coach...
...some advice for Rookie Wayne Gretzky: "No matter how much you make, get out there and earn it." Now in his second season with the Edmonton Oilers, Gretzky, 20, obeys the commandment. The 5-ft. 11-in., 165-lb. center is the most exciting one-man show in the sport. Little known outside the puck-hustling world, the Great Gretzky, as he is called by ice-rink railbirds, blows N.H.L. records like wildcat gushers on the Alberta plains...
DIED. Joe Louis, 66, the legendary "Brown Bomber" who held the World Heavyweight boxing championship for nearly twelve years; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas (see SPORT...