Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amazed at Jack Paar's vindictive attitude [TIME FORUM, Sept. 16] toward Dick Cavett, merely because your reviewer liked the book. Shame on him for his petty words. I nominate him for "Poorest Sport in Television...
Harvard's premier wide receiver, whose favorite sport is basketball, is notorious for his ten-point rating scale of women...
...fickle spectator is still not happy, and the cry for change is heard around the nation once more: "Change baseball some more," angry mobs of people chant, pleading for more lifegiving reform to be injected into the dying sport...
...players are not in shape or the country's best players did not show up--or, as in Bobby Hull's case, were not allowed to play because of NHL-WHA politics. We collectively have to face up to the fact that if a foreign country emphasizes a sport, either by subsidizing the construction of facilities or by exalting its participants in the press and public rallies, we cannot expect to remain superior forever...
...money alone makes it a unique event. For trading punches next week, George Foreman and Muhammad Ali each stand to collect a minimum of $5 million-the biggest payday in the history of sport. If the fight goes 15 rounds, they will have earned $110,000 per minute per man. In addition to guaranteeing their wages, the government of Zaïre has put up another $12 million for the combatants' expenses and to doll up the capital city of Kinshasa...