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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first time a woman had competed: in 1966, Roberta Gibb hid in bushes near the start of the Boston Marathon and then jumped into the race shortly after the starting gun fired, finishing (unofficially) in 3 hr. 21 min. 40 sec. The next year, Kathrine Switzer registered for the race as "K.V. Switzer," and Boston officials, unaware of her sex, allowed her to compete. Upon noticing K.V. was no man, a race official tried to physically remove her from the course; her boyfriend, running nearby, gave him a shove and she finished the race. (Switzer went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marathon | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...Craig Switzer and Jacob Micflikier had a goal and an assist each for the Wildcats (4-3-1, 3-1-0 Hockey East...

Author: By Associated press | Title: Overtime Tally Against Brown Caps Perfect Opening Weekend for Cornell | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

...Switzer gave New Hampshire the lead just 48 seconds into the game. Micflikier scored a power-play goal at 6:50 of the second period to make it 2-0. Mike Radja made it 3-0 at 8:02 of the third...

Author: By Associated press | Title: Overtime Tally Against Brown Caps Perfect Opening Weekend for Cornell | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

...Though Switzer must have out-coached Joe Pa, if only in the area of sideline composure, Oklahoma's good-times coach was as graceful and considerate later as Shaffer. "In the '50s, coaches may have made the difference," he said, "but you don't outcoach anymore. Players win now." With a sigh not a bellow, Switzer proclaimed, "We survived Bowl Day. That gives us the national championship." As for next year, he advised pretenders, "You've got to be good, got to be lucky and got to have other people help you." Oklahoma's aid came from New Orleans, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One Champion After All | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Several years before the Rams reached the Super Bowl, Defensive End Fred Dryer and Teammate Lance Rentzel spoofed the famous hype by crashing the press box in the '20s guise of Front-Page Reporters Cubby O'Switzer and Scoops Brannigan. Each carried a "press" card in his cap and a $50 bill in his kit for flashing at bellhops and other cheap purposes. "After that, I couldn't help but smile at the Super Bowl," says Dryer, 39, for whom acting has become a profession. He plays Police Detective Hunter on television. "When all the over-coaching, overpreparing and overwriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life's Not a Bowl Of Any Single Thing | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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