Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Simple, Tintti says. "There still isn't much figure skating in Finland. Hockey is the big sport there. It's like football in America, and it takes up all the ice time...
...since the 1976 Olympics, the lone member of the 1978 Finnish World Team has immersed herself in practice. She writes for a skating magazine in Finland and does some exhibitions during her short trips back to Helsinki, trying to promote the sport to her countrymen; but in pursuit of a spot on the 1980 Finnish Olympic team, Tintti can afford little time away from...
...care, but if you were to ask, the White House could tell you that Jimmy Carter's favorite color is blue. The President of the U.S. is 5 ft. 9 in. tall, weighs 155 Ibs., has a 39-in. chest and a 33-in. waist. His favorite spectator sport is stock car races. His favorite poet is Dylan Thomas. His favorite books are James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. His favorite car is still the Studebaker Commander that he owned...
...balance of power is overdue for a sport that has been rigidly divided into haves and havenots: the same eight teams have monopolized the Super Bowl, playing one another again and again for a total of 18 appearances in the championship's twelve-year history. But parity on the field was wrought, at least in part, in the rule book. With the regular season expanded by two games to a total of 16, the league shifted to scheduling that pitted top teams against top teams and also-rans against also-rans more often than ever. The new scheme eliminated...
Certainly offenses have begun to perk up under the new rules. Championships may be won by tightfisted defenses, but the offensive flair that was typical of the old A.F.L. has finally taken lively root in the sport, and this season has already produced 330 more points than last year. Los Angeles Coach Ray Malavasi explains: "The N.F.L. had gotten stereotyped, but the A.F.L. came up with new formations- multiple fronts, multiple coverages, using men in motion -and in the past four or five years, teams have begun to use them...