Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worse, management is inexperienced, and it comes as no surprise that the balance sheets are a study in red. Hardheaded investors might be expected to take one look at the enterprise and run in the opposite direction. Right? Wrong. The money-losing operation happens to involve big-time sport, and the locale happens to be Cleveland, where an athletic franchise is almost guaranteed to bring out the small boy and large civic booster hidden in many businessmen...
Sanders's hardcourt heartstoppers sport five straight wins over Northeastern, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and Dartmouth. In a seesaw battle on Tuesday night, Harvard pulled out a 72-63 home victory over the Big Green...
...didn't see the right fencing in those two rounds," Marion said. "It was too erratic, there was too much missing, they were too emotional. Fencing is as much a strategic, tactical sport as it is a physical sport...
...pyrotechnical, as usual, Frazier stolid but with a certain quiet wit. Asked just before the match how the $2.5 million purse makes him feel, he replies with ironic deliberation that "it gives me the inspiration to do a little more." The Fighters captures the skill and challenge of the sport, as well as its grand carnival spirit, as surely and lovingly as AJ. Liebling did in The Sweet Science. That is saying a great deal...
...Implacable showoff" who "set world records for taking himself seriously." But yes, says Stegner, DeVoto has been low-rated, chiefly because he ran with no coterie, and in fact ran head down against most of the opinion makers of his day. For him literature was a contact sport...