Word: olympicsized
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A slam, for the uninitiated, is a kind of poetry Olympics in which poets perform their work before a panel of judges randomly chosen from the audience. Each performer is rated on a scale of 0 to 10; the highest cumulative score wins. It is poetry as team sport; Emily...
This put him in conflict with his coach, the almost equally legendary Bill Bowerman (Sutherland), no mean athletic aesthetician himself. He's presented as a more forgiving and gently eccentric kind of obsessive, disapproving of his pupil's stubborn individuality but also watchfully guarding a passion for excellence that matches...
In 1968 his squad represented the United Stateat the Olympics.
When ESPN first staged the X-Games four years ago, its goal was to hold the attention of 12- to 34-year-old male viewers, who are increasingly bored by baseball, football and just about everything else that doesn't involve nudity. This month, along with such traditional contests as...
The World Cup, the quadrennial global soccer championship being fought out in nine cities across France this month and next, brings out all the best and worst of nationalist sentiments, not to mention the most incredible soccer talent on earth. It's a spectacle that dwarfs the Olympics in national...