Word: baltimorean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week progressed, attention shifted back to swimming's newest stars: three American teenagers. "I was so excited, I was, like 'Wow!'" declared Baltimorean Beth Botsford, 15, after striking gold in the 100-m backstroke. Brooke Bennett, a 16-year-old Floridian, won the 800-m freestyle, leaving a tearful Janet Evans, the queen of long-distance swimming, in sixth place. The youngest U.S. medalist, California's Amanda Beard, 14--who had her parents bring her teddy bear to the stands--captured two individual silvers in the breaststroke and a relay gold...
...other baggage that has come to be associated with the modern-day professional athlete. He has never sulked, malingered, strutted, whined, wheedled or referred to himself in the third person. He has turned down several opportunities to become a free agent, preferring to remain an Oriole and a Baltimorean. He has endorsements, to be sure, but his most famous one is for milk...
...have quite a bit of prodding, mainly from next to fellow sports Cubist Mike Ginsberg, a Baltimorean who has never quite forgiven the Colts for leaving 10 years ago. But for the most part, the words came from inside myself. Once given the possibility of taunting Indy, I took it as far as I could...