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...NCAA sport if I could be assured…[t]hat for every men’s heavyweight event, there would be an equivalent men’s lightweight event,” Yale lightweight coach Andy Card wrote in an email. “[And] that the weigh-in requirements and rules for men’s lightweight rowing currently in effect in the EARC be adopted exactly without modification into an NCAA format...
Later that day, a crowd of 10,000 filled the basketball arena connected to the convention center to watch the weigh-in of the day's fishing action. Amid a snazzy production of music, lights, video highlights and patriotism, the big moment came down to the contestants pulling fish out of a sack. Local pro George Cochran had the biggest haul, at 10 lbs. 3 oz., which he displayed to thunderous applause. Game over. By winning the Forrest L. Wood [FLW] Championship, Cochran collected $500,000, which isn't bad for a couple of days' fishing. Two weeks later...
...weigh-in, Paret, a Cuban immigrant, called Griffith "maricn"--a Spanish slur for homosexual and an allusion to rumors that Griffith was gay. Griffith does not reveal his sexual orientation, but, he says calmly, "I wasn't nobody's faggot." In the 12th round, he trapped Paret in the corner and unleashed a brutal flurry of uppercuts to his head. Norman Mailer likened the barrage to "a baseball bat demolishing a pumpkin." Paret died 10 days later...
Moreover, committee members said that the review’s lack of formal avenues for communication, means that there are issues in the report that many had little chance to weigh...
...Whether the city of Memphis has its growth is yet to be seen. Memphis, says HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant, went after the fight "the way it would go after a new automobile plant." At the weigh-in Thursday afternoon, Merchant stood back, shaking his head and watching Tyson, whom he calls a "psycopath," play to the whooping crowd. "Boxing will lose if Tyson wins," pronounced Merchant, whose HBO network is collaborating with Showtime in producing the pay-per-view version of the fight. "He's convincing people that you don't have the obey the rules, that boxing...