Word: pros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roundball among the amateurs was every bit as rugged as it is among the pros. Now as then, the rougher the game, the better Yardley likes it. He says that he scores best when a guard is climbing all over him: "When a guy is on top of you, you know where he is. You can watch the basket." Yardley has driven the Pistons to a place in the National Basketball Association championship playoffs. All their opponents know that if bothering Yardley makes him dangerous, leaving him free to shoot might turn him into-well, a man who would...
...Racing Form) raced to report that horse parks, with 53,820,958 customers, led all other competitors for the sportsman's spare time. Second: baseball, with 32,512,503 (despite a drop of more than 1,500,000 in minor-league attendance). Third: football, with the colleges and pros playing to a combined...
...simulated gaiety and affection that they showed their customers, 18 were frigid with them, and ten were incapable of orgasm in any relationship. Some of the less frigid still needed debasement to achieve satisfaction: "I can only be excited by a man who despises me." All the pros were anxious and depressed; no fewer than 15 had tried suicide, many of them several times; one succeeded on the sixth try. Of the six he analyzed, Dr. Greenwald could report proudly that five quit the racket (though that was not their aim in seeking therapy, but relief from anxiety and depression...
...tries to cut loose on a crowded highway, he is playing a dangerous game; first prize may be the last. But last week the dodgers and weavers got a break. At Florida's abandoned Flagler Beach Airport, even the local cops turned out to cheer as amateurs and pros whipped through brand-new driving tests devised by the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Instead of NASCAR's usual straight dashes down the tide-smoothed sands of Daytona Beach, the association concocted its 1958 stock-model performance tests as a yardstick of automobile safety, based them...
...scored enough to get scholarship bids from some two dozen colleges. Pettit chose Louisiana State University, was an All-American for two years in a row, and in 1954 was the first-draft choice of the St. Louis Hawks. A handsome, lithe giant, Bob Pettit soon found that the pros play their own rugged brand of ball, but he survived the rattling rites of passage. On offense, his soft, floating jump shot is a model for the league. On defense, he has tactics for every player, e.g., against Cincinnati he presses hook-shooting Clyde Lovellette, but he lies back...