Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women play basketball more than any other sport," Kleinfelder says...
...this season, the Radcliffe cagers sport a 2-0 record, having beaten Emmanuel College and Boston University...
...Thompson and Wayne Rogers have learned it and, at a California club partially owned by OJ. Simpson, so have many others. In fact, nearly 3 million people have taken up racquetball-an indoor racquet game played on handball courts-in the past six years, making it the new boom sport of the tennis-conscious '70s. To accommodate it, new courts are rising as quickly-and conspicuously-as the welts caused by the hollow, rubber racquetball...
...played the game, braving the clan-ridden handball courts of big-city gyms with their truncated tennis racquets. It was tough going; prying loose playing time on a handball court made getting in to the Royal Enclosure at Ascot seem relatively simple. Still, racquetball aficionados persisted, hooked on the sport's caroming speed...
Despite injuries, racquetball is an excellent fitness game. The speed of the sport produces maximum exercise in minimum time; tennis players report a more vigorous workout in 45 minutes of racquetball than in several hours of tennis. So when commercial developers built the first racquetball clubs in suburban Chicago and Minneapolis four years ago, tennis players came streaming in from the cold. Today there are 510 court clubs-as distinguished from the old handball haunts-and more are under construction, mostly in the Midwest and the West; high real estate costs have limited development in the East...