Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another physician, Dr. Allan Ryan, editor of The Physician and Sportsmedicine, agrees that black athletes often have a greater leg-to-trunk-length ratio than whites, which gives them an advantage in activities requiring explosive force, such as sprinting and jumping. Dr. Lyle Micheli, director of the sport-medicine division of Children's Hospital, has made similar observations. In examining black children, he has found that they have relatively small muscle mass in their calves, but highly muscled thighs. Says he: "The combination of the two makes for very efficient running. But we don't know whether...
...back Bobick with his talk of chumps. But there's still a little worry growing in the back of his mind. He knows the guys at Nini's Corner now tell you to look for Ring magazine, the Bible of boxing, back in the section "with the other fake sport, wrestling." He knows about Don King. He remembers a fight up in Maine when Sonny Liston went down before Ali had put his hands up. He begins to think about what the promoters are thinking. Undefeated Bobick beats Norton, Bobick versus Ali. A white champ? Long John suddenly doesn...
Nuts explained that students who attended a public high school before college are often severely deficient in their knowledge of the sport of crew. He added that those with a private school education are usually immune to the illness because their schooling often filled this sports knowledge deficiency...
Both Nuts and Crazy confirmed that many students who had no pre-college knowledge of crew have avoided the disease by joining their crew team and learning the sport. However, Nuts warned that this method of prevention can result in addiction to the sport or premature death due to overexertion...
...revelations were too much for ABC Sports and Arledge, who has recently been touted as the next head of news operations for the network. The network canceled the seventh series of bouts-scheduled to be fought in Miami Beach-stopped the tournament, and hired a special investigator to delve into the charges. Rival CBS was caught in the backlash. After promoters set up an embarrassing mismatch for CBS's boxing series, both networks-wary of viewer confidence in the sport-suspended future bouts. ABC hopes to clean house and resume the telecasts, but Don King's tourney...