Word: cheer
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...Heartland Association: Now that the HA's fine student-athletes meet the restrictions of Proposition 48 ("Farming 101") being no longer mandatory for credit), fans of teams like the Nebraska A&I Scythes and the North Dakota Polytechnic Reapers can cheer their point guards and big men towards an NCAA automatic berth...
After years of fragmenting TV audiences and drooping ratings for even major sports events such as the Olympics and the Super Bowl, the networks had cause to cheer: Lillehammer showed that couch potatoes can still be lured back. The Games' popularity also disproved one bit of conventional Olympics wisdom -- that live is better than taped. Although the prime-time events were canned and the results known beforehand, viewers couldn't seem to turn away...
...believe in justice should cheer Harding's eleventh-hour lawsuit, which has taken her fate out of the hasty hands of the star-chamber U.S.O.C. and put it into the slow-as-molasses legal system with all its constitutional safeguards. This is a rare moment when the interests of the low-road entertainment mongers and the sticklers for due process coincide. Otherwise, the ending would have to play out in parallel universes -- Kerrigan at Lillehammer, on Saturday Night Live and in Reebok ads; Harding on Inside Edition, the carpet of the .S.O.C. and in No Excuses jeans ads. Worse...
...side on South Africa's road to democracy. Nelson Mandela wants to focus attention on the better life to come, "the historic moment when all South Africans, blacks and whites, will work together to build a new country." But while joyous crowds of African National Congress supporters chant and cheer at his every appearance, Afrikaner Resistance Movement leader Eugene Terreblanche warns of trouble to come if whites are not given their own state. Last week a visibly angry Mandela repeatedly interrupted his upbeat campaign speeches to warn that he would match violence with violence if right-wing sabotage...
Identifying himself only as "Undermoose," a second streaker said, "The idea was just to spread Valentine cheer and joy across campus...