Word: underdogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bell still has a second race to win, of course. In November he must face another political rookie, Basketball Star Bradley, and he will rate as the underdog in that contest. Bradley, 34, a Rhodes scholar and former star forward for the New York Knicks, moved to New Jersey four years ago and began shaking hands and squeezing arms. He used a well-financed campaign to parlay name recognition and celebrity support into a Democratic primary victory over five rivals...
...boat feels good," Strong said yesterday. "We're sort of an underdog, and it's exciting and aggressive...
...last night's quarterfinal round of the Virginia Slims Boston stop at B.U.'s Walter Brown Arena, Navratilova was again confronted with one of the detractions of being number one because though the world loves a winner, it loves an underdog even more. While Kerry Reid was mounting what looked like a possible upset of the top-seeded Navratilova last night, the crowd gathered unanimously in the Reid corner...
...line, and with that there was less raw, reverse-racism talk from Ali. Finally Ali reclaimed his crown in Kinshasa, Zaïre. George Foreman, the hardest puncher since Sonny Listen, spent himself pounding Muhammad Ali ceaselessly?and uselessly?on the ropes one early African morning. Ali again was the underdog, but it was his galvanic personality that drew the attention of the world...
...Football League. But like Ali, Namath's lasting imprint in memory involves certain splendidly perfect moves: his flickingly fast release of passes, his clairvoyant readings of defenses and where his receivers would be. Like Ali, Namath could be an arrogant gamesman: he preposterously predicted that his 17-point underdog Jets would beat the Baltimore Colts in the 1969 Super Bowl-and they...