Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Roy and Sneddon were named to the NCAA All-Tournament team in April, and Roy shared Harvard Rookie of the Year honors with goaltending partner Chuckie Hughes...
...center court for NCAA tournament games and they're thanking me," Veneziano says. "I felt like hugging them...
Last March. Veneziano was asked by the Providence College Sports Information Department to help out at the regionals of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Veneziano worked the foul paddles in those games, including Princeton's near-upset of Georgetown. After the weekend was over, he was profusely thanked by the Providence Sports Information department...
When golfer Lee Trevino was leading this year's Masters tournament, he proclaimed to a press assembly, "If a man had walked up to me and bet I couldn't break 76, I wouldn't have taken a quarter of the bet. And I'm a gambling man." As the New York Yankees began the baseball year in a slump, owner George Steinbrenner pledged that manager Dallas Green would last the entire season. As he put it, "If you want to go out and make a bet . . ." Given Steinbrenner's way with managers, cordons of nuns might have burst from...
...theme of youthful impertinence, especially Chang's, rang through the tournament and carried for a distance. "It's embarrassing," grumbled John McEnroe all the way from England, where preparing for grassy Wimbledon seemed a more profitable exercise than adding to 34 years of U.S. desperation on French clay. Since Tony Trabert succeeded at Paris in 1955, not one of the grand Americans -- not Stan Smith, not Arthur Ashe, not Jimmy Connors, not McEnroe -- had ever won the French. And the brazen way Chang finally did it galled McEnroe, 30, who muttered the fairly amazing statement, "We've got to teach...