Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CLEVELAND 105, PHILADELPHIA 102; STEELERS BLAST BILLS; SEAVER HURLS TWO-HITTER- such is the stuff of which basic sports reporting is made. As a weekly newsmagazine, however, TIME has never wanted to deliver to its readers a day-by-day account of what TV calls "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." Rather, as Sport Writer Philip Taubman puts it, "our contribution can be to go into stories with more depth or come at them from another direction." So it is with Taubman's cover story this week on Goalie Bernie Parent of the Philadelphia Flyers, whose...
...Like many of them, he began skating at the age of five in rural Waterloo, Quebec, and later played in a youth league. He turned to wordier pursuits when he proved too slow, small and contentious- he was a regular denizen of the penalty box- to continue in the sport. All the same, in the course of eight hours of interviews, Parent confided to Lewis various anxieties and ruminations that one might not expect of a hardened athlete...
...gold-medal gymnast, the reflexes of a championship racing-car driver, the eye of a .400 hitter and the mind of a geometrician. Even then he is nothing if he has not conquered fear, for he lives in a vortex of violence in the world's fastest team sport. He is the hockey goalie, the masked man, the magnet for action...
...other sport, the essence of his game is violence -bodies hurtling, players smashing each other into the boards, sticks slashing, fists always at the ready. Even when the skating and body checking are clean-and they often are not-the play is fierce and frightening. And it is all directed at one target-the man in the reinforced fiber-glass mask...
Though he rarely strays far from the net, and does not have the flashy moves of a high-scoring center, it is the goalie in his lonely vigil who embodies the savage, bruising and ultimately mesmerizing nature of his sport. He is an imposing knight in polyurethane padding as he crouches before the goal, ready to strike out in any direction with glove, skates or oversized stick. But behind his ghostly synthetic face, he is still vulnerable. No padding or mask that leaves him free to move can fully shield him from the potentially lethal blow of a slap shot...