Leonard Duran Set For High Stakes Welterweight Showdown
Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran clash tonight at Olympic Stadium for the world welterweight title with a 15 round bout. Estimated crowd near 50 thousand. purses cited at about 4 to 10 million dollars combined. broadcast via closed circuit and international feeds. Leonard, 24, enters as favorite to take Duran in a bout shaping as a modern classic amid talk of Duran’s declining punch force.
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Remembering Starkie and Hawley in West Virginia baseball history
A reminiscence recalls Starkie Charleston and Hawley WVU athletic figures from a past era. It notes Starkie catching a Sunday game for 25 dollars, a Bluefield semipro cs team, and Hawley later serving as WVU athletic director. The piece mentions wartime graduates, local ballparks, and barnstorming Reds with legends like Rixey and Roush, ending with Bluefield High School athletic award recipients Jordy Spiegel and Susie Queet.
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Babe Pinel
Pat Duncan
Robert E. Gatherum Jr
Bluefield High School
Jordy Spiegel
Susie Queet
BHS
Fisher population survey targets muskies on Tygart River backwaters
In ELKINS area the DNR conducts a creel census to measure muskies and northern pike populations. Anglers are asked to fill questionnaires detailing fishing time, catch counts, and fish sizes, with muskies brought to the Elkins office or reported to DNR officials.
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Last minute track meet eyed near Moscow boycott
San Francisco officials and university leaders race to organize a last minute track meet for nations boycotting the Moscow Games. Stanford, five miles south, weighs hosting as Berkeley and Penn cancelled alternate events.
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Dianne Feinstein
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Llan Cassel
Athletics Congress
Olympic Athletic
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Orioles Fall in Opener 2-0 at Bluefield
In Elizabethton Tennessee Wayne Palica and David Wilson held Bluefield to two runs as Rick Beswick’s third inning single produced the game's lone run. Orioles pitchers struggled with timely hits, managing only five hits and leaving multiple runners stranded as Bluefield edged ahead 2-0.
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Jeff Eed
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Harvey
Ron Cashore
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Bill Price
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Vickoff
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Ali names Leonard as winner of Duran bout in Vegas hype
Muhammad Ali in Montreal predicted Sugar Ray Leonard would beat Roberto Duran in the welterweight clash. He floated two possible future fights this year including a bout with Bernardo Mercado and a potential return against Larry Holmes, citing $10 million per Fight. Dundee reportedly prefers Holmes as his comeback opponent while Ali noted Sugar Ray’s estimated 8 to 10 million payout for Friday’s card.
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