Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great ones don't always go out so great. Everyone thought Bill Russell timed his retirement from coaching and playing perfectly in 1969, with a World Championship in his pocket, but the lure of sport itself (along with some big money) coerced him back into the basketball scene. He now bides his time unglamorously as coach of the mediocre Seattle Supersonics...
...could state, and get no argument from me, that Ali carried the sport of boxing from 1966 up until just a short time ago. The name Ali and the word "boxing" were synonymous in most people's eyes. And rightfully so, since the lower weights were producing no one of great charisma, such as a Sugar Ray Robinson, and the heavyweight division, outside of Joe Frazier, simply had no one to offer. Boxing was Ali and Ali was boxing...
...more. The United States' performance in the Olympic Games, particularly in the lower-weights, has made the sport of boxing bigger than just the heavyweight division. Names like Seales, Leonard and Davis are almost as well known as their heavyweight counterparts. People are beginning to realize that the lower weights are no longer the realm of foreigners, especially Latin Americans...
...boxing would not be where it is without him. The sport badly needed Ali for his flamboyance and, more importantly, for his intelligence. In a rapidly advancing technological and intellectual age, boxing's barbarity made it assume an inhuman and primitive quality which ran counter to prevailing ideas...
That question transcended hockey. Without deferred-income provisions, player salaries would shrink or even shrivel. The death of an obscure Cleveland hockey team could shake all sport. Barons, hell. They looked like the Cleveland Sarajevos...