Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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For U.S. athletes it was a week of remarkable candor on the issue of sportsmanship v. the profit motive. Gathered in Manhattan to attend a dinner in their honor, a clutch of All-Americas gave a New York Times reporter their jaundiced views on the drawbacks of "amateur" college football...
Talk of this sort was right down the back alley of Ike Williams, onetime (1947-51) lightweight champion and now a $46-a-week New Jersey state employee. Appearing before Senator Estes Kefauver's hearings on the ills of boxing, Williams complained that he, too, had been underpaid throughout...
Everything about the tiny (500 students) Roman Catholic college of Belmont Abbey, nestling in the farmlands of southern North Carolina, suggests rural serenity. Everything, that is, save Basketball Coach Al McGuire, 32. Brash as Broadway, New York-born Al McGuire still has a subway tang to his speech as he...
No one in U.S. basketball, least of all his enemies, can afford to call Belmont Abbey's McGuire a jerk. By all rights, his adopted school should be the smallest in smalltime basketball: its bandbox gymnasium has only 500 permanent seats; players must clean their own uniforms. But under...
Below the Battery. By his own account, the secret of McGuire's success lies in taking an average of three players a year down to Abbey from the rich basketball territory of far-off New York. "I can't spend but about $100 recruiting," says McGuire. "So when...