Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hank Aaron. Declared Oh, who was promptly named first holder of a National Hero Honors Order by the government: "I have finally put down an unbearable burden." Aaron hailed the slugger's achievement, cabling that "Japan has much to be proud of." (For another broken record, see SPORT...
...Finding gold is like playing blackjack in Reno-it's a sport and a game of chance," says James Manion, 29, an unemployed Sacramento warehouseman. He claims to have found two nuggets last month worth $1,500. In search of more, he put on scuba gear and spent four hours under water one Sunday, searching the Merced River near Mariposa with his dredge. On the family's pontoon raft, his wife Joanne painstakingly watched the discharge for the sight of gold. Suddenly she squealed with joy and tumbled overboard in her excitement, but not before she had grabbed...
...Americans, but one that should become increasingly familiar: the Cosmos, newly crowned champions of the North American Soccer League. And above all it was for their star, Pelé, the man who more than anyone else has, in the space of a single season, turned soccer into a major sport...
...long known? Look no further than the foot of Brazilian Pelé, who will retire this season after two decades as the world's premier player (and the world's highest-paid athlete). Although the N.A.S.L. was founded nine years ago, soccer as an American spectator sport was really born in 1975 when the Cosmos persuaded Pelé to come out of retirement with a $4.75 million, three-year contract to evangelize Americans for soccer. His arrival brought instant respectability to American soccer and helped lure to the U.S. such international stars as Giorgio Chinaglia and Franz Beckenbauer...
...continued to go through the test exercises, getting in some additional practice for the final 1977 water test next month outside Detroit. Elaine Lehr, a Mount Holly, N.J., breeder who spends an hour a day training her handsome Landseer Newfoundland, Sebastian, explained the sport's appeal: "Newfoundlands are smart with sweet dispositions. Training them isn't work. Besides, they are among the few dogs you can train to do something that still has a place in this world. As long as people swim, there will be a job for Newfs. How many sheep need herding in New Jersey...