Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Running is certain to be the best-researched sport in history, because so many researchers are running, but not much thought seems to have been given to running and alcohol. Most exercise books advise against mixing the two. but in terms suggesting that what is being purveyed is merely conventional wisdom. Not long ago Runner's World, the amiable and authoritative magazine subscribed to by just about all serious foot flappers, published an article alleging that alcohol has not hurt the performances of several distance runners. Frank Shorter, the Olympic gold medalist, is said to have swallowed...
...become again the fierce-eyed force that once drove John Wooden's finest U.C.L.A. teams. They had waited for the 6-ft. 11-in. redhead to sweep the backboards of rebounds and to show them the best big-man's passing game in the history of the sport. But he burdened them with ramblings about FBI bugs in the woodwork. The Trail Blazers had counted on his size and strength to muscle them out of expansion-team doldrums and into the joyful world of N.B.A. contenders. Instead, they had to suffer with an injury-bedeviled vegetarian who contributed...
...racing, the only other regulated high speed animal racing sport (in the matter of speed, both horse and dog put homo sapien to shame) jockeys have been foresaken in the 20th century for the mechanical rabbit. Though the change originally occurred because man had become too large to ride dogs, the jockey's steel and cotton replacement has proved more than sufficient, and in many ways beneficial. Has one ever heard of a mechanical rabbit strike...
Indeed, the elimination of jockeys would do little to undermine those glorious traditions which sustain the sport of thoroughbred racing. Bold Reasoning, the father of Seattle Slew, was a handsome specimen and a credible racer in his own right; it is possible that Seattle Slew could have gotten into the Kentucky Derby on his father's name, even if he had not won a lot of previous races. But who is the father of Seattle Slew's jockey? It is quite possible that the elder Cruguef has never been to the flats, even for the purpose of placing a friendly...
This week's championship battle will match the traditional power against a team with a modern new program for the 70's. Hopkins has won an amazing 27 national championships and, since World War II alone, has produced 55 first-team All-Americans. The sport's Hall of Fame sits adjacent to the Blue Jays' historic Homewood Field; until a few years ago, one could surely say that Johns Hopkins was lacrosse...