Word: titlist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gold's Gym in Santa Monica, Calif., a man and a woman are straining against two weight machines, grimacing, muscles tightening with the rhythmic push and pull. He is Frank Zane, 37, also known as Mr. Olympia, the top titlist in professional body building. She is Christine Zane, 31, his wife, and she is not working out just because she believes families that strain together stay together. She too is a serious body builder...
Smith's philosophy seems to be as good as any for this year's crew, which faces Penn and Cornell this morning with only one returning member from last year's sprint titlist, junior Pasha Lakhdir in the seventh seat...
...first round of the Motor City Classic over Christmas vacation. Led by bluechipper Kevin Long, the Titans are ranked 18th in the nation by SI. Detroit posted a 25-4 mark last season, the best in the school's history and defeated NCAA champ Marquette and NIT titlist St. Bonaventure en route to winning 21 consecutive games. The streak was snapped by Michigan in the NCAA tourney before the largest television audience ever to watch a sports event in the state...
This year's Crimson team is also coming off a big year. Just to briefly relive the glories of last season, Harvard was the top-ranked ECAC team with a 19-1 record, Ivy titlist with a phenomenal 12-0 mark, and it compiled a perfect 12-0 Watson Rink record...
...small wonder that Reisman and his colleagues collected crowds in Asia and Eastern Europe, where table tennis is the sport of commissars. It is smaller wonder that the pros tend to develop quirks that decorate their egos like gargoyles on a tower. Richard Bergmann, the late English titlist, once searched in vain for the perfect sphere; he went through three gross of balls before he found one worthy of him. Alex Ehrlich, the Polish prodigy, could discern no life purpose beyond Ping Pong. To this day, when he finds a promising young player he counsels, "Now the first thing...