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Games People Play While it may be interesting that China is working hard to present itself as a benevolent power on the world stage, why do we ignore the cost of its goals [June 30]? When did it become acceptable for a 14-year-old girl to be taken from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

More importantly, the Russians believed they could attack too, particularly against a team with a one-striker system as the Dutch employ. The Russians are not plodders. It's a team of whippets: thin, very fit and athletic. Against Greece, left wing fullback Yuri Zhirkov repeatedly attacked up the flank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Euro 2008: And Then There Were Four | 6/23/2008 | See Source »

Thorn, who has been living with his daughter in Galesburg, Illinois, anticipates that he won't be able to visit his house for a month. Until then, he's commuting several days a week to his University of Iowa job as director of athletic grounds (which, needless to say, are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iowa: After the Flooding, the Waiting | 6/16/2008 | See Source »

At most other Chinese sports schools, suffering is considered integral to the athletic experience. At the Weifang City Sports School, where little Cloud is being trained to be a weight lifter, most of the kids are so chronically exhausted that during their afternoon break, they collapse in eight-to-a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Sports School: Crazy for Gold | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder is a good example. He has athletic talents very few people have, but the professional slugger has weighed in at more than 200 lb. since age 12. Scouts frequently labeled the teenage Fielder too heavy to have big-league potential. But, like his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fit at Any Size | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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