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Also when you're really great, everyone around you says you can do anything. Few people are going to tell His Airness that he's lost a step, that he's about to pull a Willie Mays, that athletes do this all the time, joust against age and lose--Jim Palmer, Joe Louis, Johnny Unitas. That even if there's something poetic about competing against your mortality, no one ever wrote a poem called "To an Athlete Going Gray." Even worse than the bray of the acolytes is the example of his golf buddy Mario Lemieux, 36, who also owns...
Milosevic's Joust with Justice
...This year, the council contracted with Bruce Smick Amusements, spending more than $4,000 for a "moonbounce," a water tag arena, a 26-foot climbing wall, a "gladiator joust," and a "bounce...
...could have a medieval joust, or a prolonged competitive dunking. Our champions could run across burning coals. We could invent a series of ordeals of the kind that mythological heroes passed through...
...effort to recruit more student theatergoers, Never Swim Alone presents to Harvard a quick, hour-long and free performance with racy humor embedded in a fast-paced verbal joust. Two men, Frank and Bill, argue about everything from the size of their homes to the quality of their lives to the size of their...you get the idea. Beneath the humor lie subtle references to repressed memories and undertones of violence. In this verbal boxing match, the referee becomes a woman killed in a drowning accident while racing with the men, who as young boys were desperately trying to impress...