Word: disappoint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tonya Harding and her unfortunate crowbar antics were missed in Salt Lake City this year. But for figure skating fans with a leftover thirst for scandal, the Olympics did not disappoint. Matthew L. Butler ’04 was glued to the TV coverage of the controversial gold medal awards in the pairs figure skating competition for the same reasons most fans were: the beauty of the sport, the excitement of high level athletic achievement and, of course, crazy French judges. But Butler also had a bit more at stake in the success of the Russian skaters Yelena Berezhnaya...
...called freeskiing that is rapidly changing the sport in the U.S. And they are right where America's skateboard-surfboard-snowboard generation lives. In the mens? moguls, resident renegade Jonny Moseley had a sometimes raucous crowd salivating in anticipation of his signature "Dinner Roll" jump, and he did not disappoint. Moseley stole the show in each of his two runs - but left without a medal. Ah, the irony. The outrageous Moseley is too rad for freestyle. His Dinner Roll is a 720 degree off-axis rotating jump that Moseley executes going 45 mph down the 25 degree slope...
...America did not disappoint with the big opening spectacle. Yes, it's pretty easy to put on a successful show when all everyone really wants is for no bombs to go off. Some $310 million was spent on security, airspace restrictions were in effect, and security forces outnumbered athletes at a 6-to-1 ratio. But even ignoring the low performance bar of just wanting to get out of the stadium alive, it was a solid, giant, silly performance, the kind America mastered long ago. There was some kind of very Olympicesque allegory about overcoming adversity in which evil icicle...
...appears to be…yes, a press conference. Everyone’s looking at you. Were you saying something? Yes, and from the looks of things, it was something pretty inane. You’ve done this before, you think. Act normal. Playing along. Might as well not disappoint anyone. “I’m an animal,” you scream. “I’m the stupidest person in boxing! I gotta get outta here or I’m gonna kill somebody...
...fans chose to stay to witness the match between local hero Jesse Jantzen, the fifth-ranked 149-pounder in the country, and No. 14 Jason DeBruin. Jantzen, who went undefeated throughout his high school career and was the first four-time state champion in New York history, did not disappoint his supporters, winning...