Word: tournaments
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...junior year, the Crimson recorded its best record ever, finishing with an 18-11 mark. But the highlight of the season was Harvard's performance in the Ivy League tournament...
Fishing in rural lakes is usually a contemplative pastime, but the black-bass tournament on Alabama's Lake Guntersville earlier this month seemed more like the Indy 500. Some 320 anglers set out in their boats at 5 a.m., battling the morning chill and 3-ft. waves in pursuit of fish and fortunes. The competitors were equipped with the latest in sonar and trolling motors, the better to pursue their wily prey. When the anglers returned to shore, crowds gasped in excitement as judges weighed the catch and flashed the results on a digital screen. The winner, Robert Byrd...
...contest is part of an even bigger bonanza for B.A.S.S. Inc., a Montgomery, Ala.-based company that stages the professional bass-fishing tour and dominates this arcane but fast-growing sport (estimated total U.S. bass anglers: 26 million). B.A.S.S. sets the tournament rules, controls lucrative - sponsorships, handles the marketing and covers the events in its own array of periodicals. The company promotes its contests with a weekly cable-TV show, The Bassmasters, and operates a thriving network of 2,000 amateur fishing clubs...
B.A.S.S. adheres to a strong environmental program, which mandates the release of tournament bass. The company has imposed tight safeguards to prevent cheating: anglers are randomly paired before setting out, and their boats are inspected at dockside to thwart any attempt to sneak large pre- caught fish aboard...
...Soviet Union is just a piece of a new picture. Cleared to participate in the next Olympics, the National Basketball Association plans to contribute one team to a Milan tournament in October and assign two others to open next season in Tokyo. Japan's association with American baseball, of course, goes back to Babe Ruth. Just last November, on a typical All-Star tour, the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser capped his nearly scoreless autumn by yielding a Ruthian homer to Fujio Tamura of the Nippon Ham Fighters ("I was told he couldn't hit a curve ball"). But Japan is importing...