Word: luge
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...luge" (After me, the deluge) might well be the state motto of Florida today. The Sunshine State will not be the first state to have its polls close, but at 7 p.m. Eastern, it will be the first big prize. Perhaps the big prize, as the punditocracy have over the last few days declared it to be the Maginot Line of the 2000 election. (And with that, we hereby conclude the French metaphors for the duration of this piece.) Which means that come 7:01 p.m. ET, the deluge of heavy spin will arrive...
...risk as one of our air squadrons pounding a Third World nation from 35,000 feet up. No, NBC needs to embrace the weird, surprising, freaky side of this panoply of minor sport. Think of the Winter Olympics, in which American viewers have lately fallen in love with the luge, not because they've ever used or seen one, but because they move damn fast and, well, it's a kick to say "luge." Just imagine the fun you can have with "shuttlecock...
...Austrian beverage Red Bull stands out in an oversaturated market by leading a double life: energy drink by day, mixer by night. Red Bull, which retails for $1.99 a can, sponsors such varied sporting events as street luge and Formula One racing, but its core constituency is fast becoming clubgoers, not athletes. The sugary yellowish brew, first introduced in California in 1997 and now available in more than 20 states, has hit the club circuit at such hip spots as Sky Bar in Los Angeles and Twilo in New York City. Leonardo DiCaprio served Red Bull at his millennium bash...
...there have been plenty of historic moments, but I've also experienced the bizarre thanks to The Crimson. There was the threat of physical violence from a hockey player after I insulted a plethora of Winter Olympics events, including the luge, the bobsled, figure skating, curling and the Miss Canada pageant. Despite the fact I don't want my bell rung like I'm Eric Lindros, I refuse to apologize...
...average viewer, the studio host of the 1999 X Games was ESPN's college football anchor moonlighting as a skateboarding guru for some extra summer cash. But as I quickly realized, this was not the case. Instead, he was an enthusiastic street luge fanatic who was hosting his fifth straight X Games, budgeting his work schedule around times for him to attend the events and cheer on the competitors. On a more personal note, he worked out four times a week and by some accounts ate a full box of Metr-X bars for breakfast each morning, resulting...