Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unknown quantity," Langton said, but based on past performance -- tiddlywinks has been the Engineers' best sport -- the Crimson booters should come away with...
Aaron Copland, septuagenarian composer-conductor, on his craft: "Conducting is a real sport. You can never guarantee what the results are going to be, so there's always an element of chance. That keeps it exciting...
...tournament circuit and another $5 million up for grabs on the women's tour, a bad call by a linesman is worth money-not to mention a few choice words. However offensive the behavior of the modern mercenaries, other, more serious problems confronted the sport as it moved into its new National Tennis Center on the grounds of the 1939 and 1964 New York World's Fairs...
...vision shared by many in tennis, money alone has not been the root of such evil; indeed, they consider the closet professionalism of the past to have been much worse for the game. But they fear that an overabundance of lucre has choked off thoughtful cultivation of the sport's foundations. Banned from such prestigious but amateurs-only events as Wimbledon and Forest Hills, professional tennis players once barnstormed in station wagons to play for a cut of the gate at a high school gym. Today's stars are not only welcome at the big-name championships, they...
Instead top young amateurs today can count on early honing against the sport's best. And the parade of youngsters eager to enter the pro ranks of this newly lucrative sport has become a stampede. John McEnroe, at 18 the youngest semifinalist in Wimbledon history, tossed over a scholarship to turn pro. His earnings, $68,432 to date this year, are far from Borg's $550,141, but considerable for a kid who, not so long ago, survived on an allowance. At 15, Tracy Austin remains an amateur, but one sign of coming times is the fact that...