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...start chess-boxing? I found chess-boxing on the Internet. I started chess when I was 6. I'm boxing now for seven years and have something like 72 amateur boxing fights, so I thought this is the perfect combination...
...built in Antigua, complete with an American-style hall of fame. He revels in dropping the names of Caribbean cricket stars he now counts as his friends. But his spending on Twenty20 is not just a rich fan's self-indulgence: he says the sport is the perfect vehicle for the Stanford brand name, allowing him to expand his business to new markets...
...Tanned, blonde wahines - that's lady surfers, if you aren't up on the argot - navigate waist-high waves. The area is also a magnet for pro surfers, but they eschew the small stuff and charter boats out to the nearby southern fringes of the Great Barrier Reef, where perfect, empty barrels unload onto jagged coral. When it's flat, there's good fishing and diving...
...they venture across this alien landscape, players must seek through technique and concentration a peculiarly thrilling reward: the perfect control of a ball's trajectory over hundreds of yards, through contact that lasts less than a split second. When it all goes right, as it did for Justin Rose on the final hole at Birkdale a decade ago, no sport offers a greater sensation of mastery. It is this elusive joy that explains the golfer's endless pursuit of perfection. As Leadbetter says, "That's what it's all about in golf: the quest...
...ranging from Sir Stuart Rose at British retailer Marks & Spencer to Renault's CEO Carlos Ghosn are sounding the alarm. At Burberry, the luxury-goods firm, CEO Angela Ahrendts frets about a combination of rising costs, falling demand and a strong euro that cuts into competitiveness. "There's a perfect storm out there," she says. Many investors would agree: this year, stocks across Europe are down 20% or more, the standard measure of a bear market...