Word: cheerfulness
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...self-involved. Traveling in chartered jets, surrounded by hangers- on, coddled by agents, they have more in common with CEOs than ordinary Joes. But the distance between athletes and the people who pay to see them may be increasing out of necessity. Some fans who were once happy to cheer for the home team have now turned every contest into a hatefest. Opposing players must be verbally eviscerated, their personal problems made fodder for derision. Home-team players who don't measure up aren't spared either. And the fans are hardly discouraged by arena managers happy to sell them...
...runaway smash alone would not solve the woes of the toy business. Toy stores see little Christmas cheer in tackling the big-box discounters Target and Wal-Mart, and many are shutting down. Since last season's brutal price war--led by Wal-Mart--KB Toys and FAO Schwarz have closed roughly 600 stores between them. Toys are increasingly merchandised as impulse items at drugstores, supermarkets and even coffee shops. Starbucks has sold loads of the Cranium board game. KB, operating under bankruptcy protection, says it will close 164 of its remaining 820 stores in January. FAO now consists...
...inherently hypocritical: fans want sports heroes to be more admirable than the rest of us. We used to worship athletes for being mightier, faster, greater than we could imagine. The day may come when we gather in stadiums--with our bought-and-paid-for brains, bodies and libidos--and cheer on players for making do with less...
...Dunst won’t be the only one “bringing it on” this season—the Crimson Dance Team shimmied, twirled and high kicked their way into first place in a national video competition, landing a subsidized trip to the Chick-fil-A Cheer and Dance Collegiate Championship in April...
Cheng cites the talent level on the team as a main factor of their stellar results so far. The current 16-member team contains an eclectic range of dance backgrounds: Broadway, ballet, hip-hop, jazz and cheer...