Word: athleticizing
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As a player at Duke, Kerr helped lead the Blue Devils to a national championship in 1986. In addition, he received many personal accolades, including the Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy and multiple Player of the Year awards. Kerr was also named a first-team All-American...
...have come clean after the fact, like Yankees star pitcher Andy Pettitte. Others, however, continue to deny use. But quibbling about what types of drugs were used and when and by whom, is a distraction from the larger truth: professional baseball long ago ceased to be a contest of athleticism. A large part of the appeal of following sports, professional or amateur, is predicated on the belief that they are fair contests. That the team with the most skill, the most practice, and even, sometimes, the most luck will prevail. Tilting the playing field further to include external, synthetic factors...
I go for the scary scenes too. The lions aren't the big problem here; it's the mutants, whom exposure to the virus has made gaunt, pretrenaturally athletic (they can climb tall buildings at several bounds) and as ravenous as any killer carnivore for human flesh. One sequence, in...
Last week, after eight days, 10 teams, and almost non-stop competition that included even the 2007 national champion—a challenge virtually no other athletic team at Harvard faces—the women sit a perfect 10-0 to end the fall season. This is all despite an...
And if that isn’t enough to get you to climb to the third floor of the Malkin Athletic Center to see them, maybe it’ll be the intangibles that do. Maybe it’ll be what I’ll chalk up to a...