Word: boing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Williams--who chose Dartmouth over Michiganafter recently retired Coach Bo Schembechler toldhim he wasn't good enough to play for theWolverines--mentioned sustained effort and arefusal to give up as elements that can make acritical difference...
...sure, the dollar signs are hard to miss in TV sports these days. One can see them in everything from Bo Jackson commercials for Nike footwear to the corporate logos attached to a growing number of major events (among the newest additions: the Mobil Cotton Bowl and the Federal Express Orange Bowl). "It used to be that sport was sport, and business was business," says Norman Chad, who writes about media for the sports daily the National. "Now sports is business. Something that was once sweet and in some ways idyllic now is in the mud with everything else...
...told not to play," the unnamed doctor said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "We told Hank that if he wanted to live the best, he shouldn't exercise. ((But)) Hank Gathers was going to play basketball. It didn't matter what some doctor told him." Bo Kimble, one of Gathers' teammates and best friends, disagrees. Says he: "I'm sure that if Hank knew that he wasn't supposed to play, he wouldn't have been out there...
...want to hone those bargaining skills, take a trip to the straw market, a two-story open market building in downtown Nassau. There, dozens of Bahamian natives will talk sweetly to you while they braid your hair Bo Derek-style and sell you lots of little straw and wood gadgets that you don't need. At the very least, you'll have fun picking up souvenirs for friends and family back home...
...lead the United States to the gold at the Olympics in Paris, France. Todd Marinovich will win the Heisman Trophy, earning a $50,000 bonus from USC. "I'm at USC for the education," Marinovich will claim, earning chuckles from the Downtown Athletic Club paparazzi. Nike will release a Bo Knows Boxing spot. Adidas will counter with a Tyson Can Beat the Hell Out of Bo...