Word: underdogism
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Boxing is never a beauty pageant, but the sport turned acutely ugly last week in Madison Square Garden when Riddick Bowe's heavyweight bout became an audience-participation slugfest. Bowe was clearly losing to underdog Andrew Golota when Golota punched him below the belt for the fourth time. Bowe hit the canvas, and the referee disqualified Golota. But Bowe's supporters, including promoter Rock Newman, stormed the ring, one of them smashing Golota over the head with a mobile phone. The crowd, smelling blood, started melees of its own, throwing chairs and punches until police regained sufficient control to make...
...YORK CITY: The Riddick Bowe-Andrew Golota bout-turned brawl, left another black eye on the sport of boxing and may have delivered a knockout punch to professional fights at Madison Square Garden. The bout turned ugly in the seventh round, when referee Wayne Kelly disqualified Golota, a heavy underdog who was clearly winning the fight, for repeated low blows. As Golota dejectedly walked back to his corner, handlers and hangers on overflowed the ring. Bernard Brooks Sr., a confidant of Bowe, shoved Golota from behind and then slapped him on the face. After Golota retaliated with a left, another...
Despite its convincing victories over St. Lawrence, Harvard was still the underdog in Lake Placid when it faced top-seeded Vermont...
Sure, it would be nice to write that Harvard clawed its way to yet another underdog victory and sent shock waves throughout the lacrosse world...
...authors have given us a clear-eyed account of what happened to these luminaries as well as to broadcast journalism in the decades after World War II, in the process drawing a vivid portrait of idealists who believed that "a journalist should be the champion of the underdog," but who were also "intensely ambitious young men who yearned for admission to [the best] clubs and salons..." Cloud and Olson not only recount the broken friendships and broken illusions that saddened the later years of Murrow's boys, they also lay down a disturbing, if not completely convincing, indictment of commercial...