Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because softball was only a club sport, none of last year's team records exist, but Coach Kit Morris is confident that his squad's first official win-loss mark will be an impressive...
...championship was Currier's first team title in any sport in three years, and its second since in its intramural history...
...major force behind the new boycott is the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa, a loose association of sports officials in Third World nations. Three months ago, the group distributed the names of 159 athletes from 16 nations who have competed in South Africa from September to December of 1980-and urged countries to ban them. The movement has since been endorsed by a number of nations and international organizations, including the U.N. Special Committee Against Apartheid. The blacklist includes U.S. Tennis Players Stan Smith, Pat DuPre and Bob Lutz, World Boxing Association Heavyweight Champion Mike Weaver, British Golfer Nick...
While the blacklist is forging a new sensitivity among fans and athletes, it is hardly delivering a crushing blow to front-rank competitors. It is supported largely by Third World nations, where comparatively few major international sporting events occur. Still, the blacklist is resented by many athletic figures as an unnecessary intrusion of politics into sport. "Barbaric," says U.S. Boxing Promoter Bob Arum, who has helped organize fights in South Africa. U.S. Tennis Player Brian Gottfried, who is not on the list, nonetheless calls it "a damned scandal...
Ironically, the boycott comes at a time when South Africa has begun to make progress toward desegregating its sports. Blacks are still excluded from many teams and facilities. Yet an investigative group from the British Sports Council concluded that fencing, karate, judo and track and field in South Africa are so integrated that participants should be allowed to compete internationally. The same has been said of soccer, and a French team of inquiry felt likewise about boxing. Though South Africa's national pastime, rugby, remains aggressively white, the Springboks squad now has one mulatto player. However admirable the blacklist...