Word: sports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SPORT: Baseball anoints the poor little Dodgers
...sanctions aimed at South Africa, none have upset the white population more than the country's isolation from international sports events, especially rugby, the national sport. In a bid to return to global competition, two leaders of the white-administered South African Rugby Board last week struck an unprecedented deal with the anti-apartheid black Rugby Union and the outlawed African National Congress. The parties urged the formation of a single rugby association that could field an integrated team for foreign tournaments...
...sport was eliminated at MIT after the death of a student in an unrelated activity called the Cane Rush. The purpose of the game was to kill, or tackle, the man with the cane. Unfortunately, the players took the game too seriously--and a student was accidentally killed. And when MIT's president banned the game in response, he decided to away with football as well...
Football was nonexistent at MIT until 1978, when a group of students playing on the intramural team petitioned to have the sport brought back...
Basketball, more than any other sport, relies on superstars to fill arenas and attract television audiences...