Word: boosterism
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...spar with a burlier opponent. "But he said, 'Don't worry, Mom. He does the same thing every time. I know what I need to do,'" she recalls. After losing the first few points, Sam figured out how to adjust his game to win. As well as a confidence booster for the less brawny kids or those disinclined to team sports, it can be a healthy way to let off steam. "It's a combat sport, but fast moving like a video game," says Michael Marx, a coach at New York's Rochester Fencing Center--home of three...
Brothers, 33, tried to help the system in the small ways he could. He organized plant tours for students, hoping to stir their imagination, and even helped launch a "shadowing" program, in which high schoolers tag along with employees for a day. He became an officer of the Booster Club, which supports the district's popular athletic programs. "I couldn't get a single parent to attend a planning meeting, and we had just won a state championship in football," he says. But before ruling out the Osceola system for his five-year-old son Jackson, Brothers saw one last...
...child doesn't have immunization records, transcripts and a permanent address, it's very hard to attend a regular school," says Sandra Dowling, who founded Pappas in 1989 and now, as superintendent of Maricopa County Schools, is its biggest booster. "Any child may enroll without barriers, and kids don't feel stigmatized here...
...Patrick's Day a couple of years ago, I found myself in the ideal spot to celebrate the occasion - the highlands of Papua New Guinea, as far from New York City as it is possible to be without the aid of a Saturn booster. My hosts lived in the Stone Age, perhaps a generation removed from head-hunting, but they seemed to me, on the whole, more civilized than those whey-faced, bleary tribesmen back in New York (some of my own savage people, long ago) who were busy honoring their particular heritage by vomiting in the gutters outside...
...Gators' booster club, 106 families strong, assigns each player a "foster family" that is his host for the holidays and gives him an elaborate "care package" before each road trip. Several Gators have married local women. Others have refused trades or quit hockey altogether to avoid leaving--the second wave of Canadians to settle here, two centuries after the first. Corey Neilson, a Gator defenseman from New Brunswick, Canada, loves the warm weather, the food and the way the fans simply enjoy the game instead of critiquing it. He says, "It doesn't really get much better than this...