Word: championed
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...people can say they created an industry. But Dietrich Mateschitz founded a company in his native Austria that has changed the way young people party around the world. Red Bull, the champion of hypercaffeinated energy drinks, posted sales of $1.5 billion last year, 70% of the global market. He credits a thirst for "antiauthoritarian" products. His sponsorship of ultrasports like street luge and winter surfing has tapped a vein of young male consumers. Mateschitz, a climber and snowboarder, wants to promote a product and a lifestyle. "Extreme sports are more than a marketing tool," he says. At this month...
Pforzheimer, for one, will provide 20 gallons of chili, made by a Pfoho resident and chili-cooking champion. Cabot is working on putting together a competition with its sister college at Yale, Trumbull, possibly including a bulldog-shaped pi?...
...heard that this is one of the most intense preseasons they’ve ever had,” Markley says.Adjusting to the collegiate level will be difficult, but the rookies have been tested before. For instance, Matera’s AAU team, Fencor, was a national champion in 2002, 2004, and 2005. The 5’8 Matera, who has already impressed coaches and players with smart play and accurate shooting, will be playing behind stars Hallion and junior Emily Tay, the team’s top two scorers last season. Many of the veterans, Hallion in particular, have...
...seasons and earned legendary status in women’s college basketball, against Jennifer Rizzotti, an up-and-coming young coach at Hartford. The catch? Rizzotti had been a former star—at point guard, no less—in the not-too-distant past, as a national champion and Player of the Year during her four years at Connecticut. The two-time All-American followed up her collegiate success with five seasons in the WNBA.“When Rizzotti was recruiting me, I was pretty wowed by her,” Hallion remembers, chuckling...
...leader disowned by his more refined colleagues, Zuma has become a champion of the disappointed. His supporters gathered by the thousands outside the courthouse during his rape trial. In June, when public-sector workers went on strike for several weeks, they chanted Zuma's name at rallies. He has the official endorsements of the ANC's powerful Youth League and the party's partners, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions. He has also been trying to widen his appeal. After meeting local business leaders in September, Zuma told TIME, "If international businesspeople...