Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Ruffian, 3, one of the fleetest, most beautiful fillies in racing history; by an injection of phenobarbital after injuries suffered during a $350,000 match race at New York's Belmont Park race track (see SPORT...
Despite all the entertaining distractions and intellectual feints, The Fight only adds up to Norman Mailer honorably going about the business of making his living. Covering a sport that seems to hold less and less interest for Americans calls for all his savvy. But even Mailer cannot make a silk purse out of a cauliflower...
...still, there are probably more blacks on the field (or in the dugout, anyway) at a given time than are in the stands. Black attendance at Boston sports events has been especially sparse, lately, but the fact is that in baseball there are just fewer black players all over. Athletes trying to make it in sports usually have ten varsity letters and several options as they finish high school, and blacks--for whom the stakes are higher--are increasingly rejecting the baseball route. For one, baseball players don't tend to get scholarships to college; and when the game...
...Chris Evert, Wimbledon was more like Waterloo. First she was upset in the semifinals by Billie Jean King. Then ex-Boy Friend Jimmy Connors brought Actress Susan George on his arm to watch his own upset in the men's singles (see SPORT). Said Chris: "He is no longer my fiancé, and all thoughts about marriage have been shelved." All of which helped Billie Jean look like the coolest competitor around. She acquired a striking outfit that she threatened to wear (but did not) to the Wimbledon ball: Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp costume. Then, having proclaimed...
...fight ex-Titleholder Joe Frazier. The purse, put up by the Philippine government, guarantees $4.5 million for Ali and $2 million for Frazier. Counting closed-circuit TV and other "ancillary" income, Ali should take home close to $8.5 million, Frazier $4.5 million-the biggest payday in the history of sport. As if they needed a down-to-earth incentive, the two fighters shook hands on a whopping $1 million personal bet. "It will be a thrilla in Manila," proclaimed Ali. If he gets by Smokin' Joe, Ali promises to fight George Foreman and Ken Norton, and apparently Foreman...