Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Othello is always going to strangle Desdemona," Kahn says "But sport is unpredictable and real. The pain is real, and the tears are real tears." Kahn, author of the bestselling The Boys of Summer, an affectionate look back to the glory days of the Dodgers in Brooklyn has been writing about sports for 26 years. This week he begins a new feature for TIME. His "Byplay" will appear 20 times a year, offering, in Kahn's words, "a dialogue with our readers on sports...
Norton ignored the champion, and a doctor in a yellow and black sport jacket took pulses and blood pressure; complaining that he could not do his work unless Ali quieted down. Ali signaled to his retinue, and presently his seconds and Norton's seconds were calling each other flunkies...
With the memory of last year's classic between the Reds and the Red Sox still fresh, baseball had its strangest and most successful season ever. The sport's legal underpinnings were cut away in the courts before spring training began. Opening day was in doubt for a while as owners-fearful at the prospect of free agents-locked the players out of training camps. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn finally ordered the camps opened while the players' union and management struggled toward a compromise. Oakland A's Owner Fearsome Charlie Finley decided the price of peace...
...that is where the Red Sox and congratulations come in. For the second straight season the Red Sox have demonstrated the uncertainties in sport. In that endless summer of 1975, when even the Fenway pigeons seemed to sing, the Bosox defied the critics who had put them behind Baltimore and New York in their division, who had forecast the A's in three, and the Big Red Machine to roll in four...
Kimball, a varsity wrestler as a freshman, plans to try that sport once again. Davis will see if he can sing in the Glee Club. Stromberg is considering debate, but admits that his interest is not what it was three years ago. Petersen hasn't yet decided whether or not he'll play basketball as he did his freshman year. And as to whether or not Quincy House will see "Captain A+" this year, well, Petersen's not saying...