Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bauer--seventh-grade sister of shortstop Brad--and her parents closed our a weekend of Harvard baseball by taking in yesterday's game. The Bauers return to Columbus, Ohio, today.... Harvard hockey coach Billy Cleary stopped by for a few innings to catch what he calls "my actual favorite sport." Cleary spoke optimistically about the incoming freshmen he expects to help the puck program.... The Crimson travels to Worcester, Mass., this afternoon to battle Holy Cross. Crusader fans (and anyone else who goes) will see baseball and basketball star Ronnie Perry play short-stop for Holy Cross. Perry will probably...
...other National Basketball Association team, it would have been bad enough, but for the Boston Celtics, one of the proudest dynasties in all of sport, the past two years were disastrous. It was not just defeat: 103 losses against only 61 wins, the worst record in the league. It was the way the games were lost: Curtis Rowe dribbling endlessly; Bob McAdoo shooting 20 times a game; Sidney Wicks driving into a wall rather than passing to an open teammate. It was not, in short, the Celtic way, the kind of team play that brought 13 championship banners to Boston...
According to a survey by Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, Inc., a Manhattan ad agency, just about every sport except tiddlywinks has a shot at a fall spot. Two pilots center on football, one each on baseball and boxing. NBC even has one called Drivel-make that Dribble-to-basketball fans. (CBS, of course, is already jumping for the hoops with The White Shadow.) Eight pilots are based on movies. Among them: Breaking Away, Foul Play, The Goodbye Girl, Between the Lines and Freebie and the Bean. The flick series include Semi-Tough, The Main Event (also in the sport grouping...
...brisk, crisp prose conveys a simple message" running is a growing sport, a great sport, and I'll tell you why you should run and how to run intelligently...
...boom hit home about ten years after the war did, and its growth pattern parallels the rise of our Me generation. Running is intensely personal, owing, among other things, to what Yale psychiatrist Dr. Victor A. Alshul terms "its contentless character." Several journalistic punsits have poked fun at the sport, underscoring its intrinsic self-centered traits. And perhaps it is a damning comment that running has only become a "phenomenon" as we have become more preoccupied with ourselves...