Word: championships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with wine coolers? It is back, it is booming, and it is by far the most highly rated form of programming on cable. Last week, for example, wrestling shows were ranked 1, 2 and 3. On Monday nights, the two rival wrestling organizations--the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling--have shows on at the same time, the former on the USA Network, the latter on TNT. In the past year, the shows' combined Nielsen ratings have risen some 50%, and together they are watched in more than 6 million households. Larry King's audience is about a fifth...
...wary reader, overdosed these many years on both Hemingway lore and mystical guff about fishing, and weary, in addition, of all too believable accounts of alcoholic decline, might tune in to Championship Bowling and leave Lorian Hemingway's memoir on the nightstand. Fair enough, but Walk on Water (Simon and Schuster; 250 pages; $23), though it does deal with booze and fishing addictions (the first deadly, the second a kind of soul's balancing act, said to be curative), is chiefly the record of a writer growing up and learning her trade...
...hardworking, muttily named Utah Jazz (did Satchmo summer in Salt Lake?), with its working-class Mailman and great white hopes, couldn't drag us away from Jordan's charm. For a spasm of a second last month, it seemed O.K. if Larry Bird's Pacers won the conference championship--there was mythological resonance to the protagonist's being felled by a warrior ghost--but by Game 7, we were right back in our proper seats behind Jordan. We wanted one more hit of Jordan's hyperintensity, and we were willing to sacrifice our belief system...
...allowed him to know when and how to pass off the double team or how to split it. The result was an almost perfect basketball player, a man with skills that few other players of comparable physical ability could match and that eventually would set him apart at the championship level. For that was when the professional game changed from a somewhat casual full-court game that showcased pure natural ability to a fierce, defensively driven half-court game in which pure athletic ability was of a more limited advantage and the discipline and completeness of a player's skills...
...World Cup, the quadrennial global soccer championship being fought out in nine cities across France this month and next, brings out all the best and worst of nationalist sentiments, not to mention the most incredible soccer talent on earth. It's a spectacle that dwarfs the Olympics in national emotion. Nobody gets upset in Italy if the gymnastics team doesn't win a medal, but if the beloved Azzuri falters, the players may want to return home wearing disguises...