Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from a privileged spot: the private box of Angels Owner Gene Autry. Last week the former President turned up at Autry's side for the first time since Watergate, munching peanuts and hot dogs as the Angels took on the Kansas City Royals at Anaheim Stadium. Playing good sport, Nixon even gave a short State of the Game address on a local radio show, during which he made perfectly clear that Sandy Koufax was "the world's best pitcher" and Ted Williams "could hit a ball anywhere." After the game, Nixon obligingly autographed baseballs for the fans...
...every recalcitrant administrator, there are thousands of women like Connecticut Housewife Carolyn Bravakis?women discovering that, years after organized athletics have failed them, the world of sport can still be theirs. Until 1975, Bravakis' closest encounter with athletics was leading cheers for the high school football team. "All my life, I never did anything," she says. "The only time I went outside was to hang wash." Then her brother organized a local 10,000-meter road race, and she decided to enter. When she managed to complete only half of the course, recalls Bravakis, "I was so disgusted with myself...
...Sport is also fun for Yvette Lewis, 15, but it serves another purpose. She hopes that basketball will be her ticket out of the ghetto, a time-honored route for males. Yvette is already getting letters from college coaches congratulating her on a dazzling sophomore season at Los Angeles' all-black Fremont High School. Softly, she speaks of her dreams: "I feel I could get a better job by going to college than staying in the street. Plus it's the right thing for a young lady...
...their act, but it would be a tragedy if women cannot avoid mistakes and exploit the opportunity that lies before them. The revolution in women's athletics is a full, running tide, bringing with it a sea change?not just in activities, but in attitudes as well. Of sport and its role in preparing both sexes for adult life, Harvard Sociologist David Riesman says: "The road to the board room leads through the locker room." He explains that American business has been "socialized" by sport. "Teamwork provides us with a kind of social cement: loyalty, brotherhood, persistence." Riesman...
Nature certainly designed women better than men for sport in one basic way. "A man's scrotum is much more vulnerable than a woman's ovaries," says Dr. John Marshall, director of sports medicine at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery and the trainer for Billie Jean King. "A woman's ovaries sit inside a great big sac of fluid-beautifully protected." A woman's breasts are also not easily damaged. Scotching an old myth, Marshall says: "There's no evidence that trauma to the breasts is a precursor of cancer...