Word: championed
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...gods must be smiling. Japan's national sport, which began as an ancient form of religious worship, is muscling its way around the modern world. Today the grand champion of Japan hails from Mongolia, and as U.S. team coach Yoshisada Yonezuka puts it, "Big guys smash into each other" in sumo rings from Poland to Brazil. Elite-level sumo came to the U.S. for the first time in 20 years with a tournament this month in Las Vegas. Now there's the Sumo Ultimate Masters Organization (S.U.M.O.), a new U.S.-based league with global aspirations and the backing...
...strange season in which the team--a reconstruction project peopled by retreads and castoffs from four countries--earned every bit of its glory. The Sox notched a league-best 99 victories and held first place from opening day. In the play-offs, the Pale Hose swatted the defending world champion Red Sox in three straight and went on to crush the musclebound Angels in five. That's the amazing part...
...women are newcomers, they find online teaching tools and free or low-stakes games appealing. At Bodog.com for example, new players automatically get a hefty $1,000 in play money and 50 poker points toward tournaments. "Online, you can get experience for a dollar," says World Series of Poker champion Duke. "When I started, I had to risk $100 a game...
...played clubs around her native Washington, then largely retreated to family life. A shining comeback in the late 1980s, when she signed with Verve, led to numerous honors, a Grammy and a popular 1991 album, You Won't Forget Me, that featured a cameo from Davis, her lifelong champion, recorded shortly before he died...
...into the nation's heart. Their 35-14 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday on the "frozen tundra" of Lambeau Field put them on a collision course to meet their natural rivals, America's Most Wanted, in the N.F.C. Championship Game next Sunday. (The defending Super Bowl champion Cowboys played the arriviste Carolina Panthers Sunday as TIME went to press...