Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...host of opponents, present and past, in an apparently hopeless cause. He was out for revenge against the boxing establishment that had summarily stripped him of his heavyweight title seven years ago for refusing to be drafted. He was fighting the skeptics who rated him a 3-to-1 underdog against Foreman, and the record of recent fights in which, aging and overweight, he had displayed only brief glimpses of his old speed and guile. He was also challenging boxing history; only one other heavyweight, Floyd Patterson, had ever won the championship twice. Finally, Ali, 32, was facing George Foreman...
Most important, don't let members of the team itself know any of this. They might actually start thinking they're really good. They might lose that fighting spirit that comes with being the underdog. Heaven forbid, they might become overconfident...
...underdog, Wilson has begun to show some uncharacteristically sharp teeth. Making crime his top issue, he comes on like Wyatt Earp, promising to clear the streets and subways of muggers and calling Krupsak "soft on crime." He has one clear advantage over Carey. He is much more amply financed than his opponent, who spent most of his funds for television time in the primary. But unless Wilson changes voters' minds with a last-minute TV drive, he is destined to be outgunned by Carey...
...Sports. A look at the famous Rocky Graziano-Sugar Ray Robinson middleweight championship fight in 1952. Graziano finished his career with this fight, going in a 3-1 underdog and the brawling, sentimental favorite, but coming out a bruised and beaten fighter with a 67-10-6 final record. Robinson--who ended up with an impressive 175-19-6 record--announced his first retirement nine months after this fight. Unfortunately, Curt Gowdy is the host. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1/2 hour...
...years ago, Bayh trounced his Republican opponent--William Ruckelshaus, one-time EPA director--by more than 70,000 votes. Though Lugar is admittedly an underdog, Indiana Republicans believe their chances are a great deal more auspicious this year. Lugar's marks the first Republican administration in nearly two decades and only the third in the last 40 years of Indianapolis politics. A former Rhodes Scholar and valedictorian of his Denison College class, Lugar has amassed an impressive record as two-term mayor. In January 1974, a U.S. News and World Report analysis revealed that, among cities its size, citizens...