Word: contestant
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...afternoon but fell to Fordham for the second time this season. The Rams (6-6, 0-0 Northern Division) came out with a 4-1 lead over the Crimson. Harvard pulled within one point, sitting at 4-3, but the Rams seemed to find a rhythm and controlled the contest for the rest of the way, scoring four of the next five goals...
...that of athletic scholarships at other schools, but the perks of offering formal athletic scholarships extend beyond being able to recruit better athletes.According to NCAA legislation, Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS, formerly Division 1-A) schools are permitted the opportunity to schedule one FCS opponent a year and count that contest as a bowl-eligible game—if the FCS team offers 57 athletic scholarships on average over the previous two years.“That’s how they looked at it,” Murphy says of Fordham. “The going rate those schools will...
...challenged O'Neal to a writing contest. We each had four days to craft 400 words about Twitter, and we'd let TIME.com readers, who I'm sure are not at all biased toward celebrities, vote for the superior writer. I called O'Neal to do some pregame trash-talking, which I thought would be a better idea than doing it to his face, partly because I'm a coward and partly because his face would be so far away...
...Neal began by telling me he's won every contest on Shaq Vs., a bold gambit, since the two episodes that had already aired showed him losing. When I brought this up, he said, "I guarantee I beat Michael Phelps at swimming. And when I guarantee, I deliver." When I asked him what kind of handicap Phelps gave him, O'Neal said, "I win one race." Then: "Out of many races...
Despite O'Neal's cheerleading, I worried about my contest entry. I finished an entire piece about how O'Neal's Twitter success meant society valued authenticity over quality. That essay was as boring as it sounded. I scrapped it and wrote one about how impotent my Twitter power was, since I could get only four of my 700,000 followers to spread false rumors about CNN's Rick Sanchez. I went through five different first sentences, finally choosing one just because my editor kept e-mailing me that I was past my deadline...