Word: jockey
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...Harvard women’s basketball team boasts five outstanding freshmen who will jockey for playing time during the 2005-2006 season. They bring size, athleticism, and impressive resumes, but they must adjust quickly to the collegiate game in order to contribute...
...they agreed before the race, but wouldn't it be something if she won? "She's just special - and she's a mare, having a crack at history against the boys," says Michelle. It proved more than a tilt. By the time he and Makybe were "a mile out," jockey Glen Boss knew the record was theirs: "That's the best part of my job, when you're out there and it's just you and her." Still, it was impossible to ignore the roar of the crowd, which, as they surged into the home straight, "was so powerful...
...iambic pentameter (and play air guitar) as a disillusioned English politician in Yes. The piquant mix is typically Sam Neill. But as the closeted gay Sydney crime lord in the new Australian film Little Fish, his finish is almost unrecognizable. There's nothing remotely respectable about Bradley "The Jockey" Thompson, a character so crooked he seems straight. As the former lover of Hugo Weaving's ex-AFL footballer junky (in turn the confidant of a strung-out video-store proprietress played by Cate Blanchett) he's the toxic puppeteer of Rowan Woods' eye-opening Cabramatta-set crime thriller. Woods...
...tell a lot about a man from his boots, so let's start there: the Jockey wears tan dress shoes. The shirt is open-necked, the hand bejeweled, and the hair styled perhaps by radio star John Laws' barber. But it is the soft voice, as if medicated, that insinuates most. Even the early-'90s Jaguar his nouveau-riche "businessman" drives was chosen by Neill, who used legal contacts to get in touch with underworld figures for research. But it is the character behind the fa?ade that Neill articulates best. In one of the film's most poignant scenes...
...Jockey-size Levi Leipheimer, 31, the Montana-born boss of Germany's team Gerolsteiner, makes up with precision riding what he lacks in raw talent. Before each stage, he probes his bike like a quality-control engineer, obsessing over the height and angle of the saddle, its distance from the handlebars. He can drive the tech guys crazy. "I've seen him argue for 15 minutes about a difference of one and a half millimeters," says Gerolsteiner spokesman Jörg Grünefeld. Leipheimer's approach is clearly working; he reached fifth place entering the Tour's final week...