Word: phenom
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...somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, youth swells with promise, and every team has an equal share of first place. Nowhere is this spirit more desperately needed than in Washington, D.C., oppressed by record snowfalls and blizzards of icy distrust. Enter Stephen Strasburg, the pitching phenom drafted first overall by the lowly Washington Nationals. A strapping fella with a record $15.1 million contract and a 103-m.p.h. fastball, Strasburg brings more heat than a Tea Party rally, with more spin than a busload of press secretaries. Washington feeds on the latest sensation. Remember that Obama...
Following her teammate’s exciting victory, freshman phenom No. 1 Laura Gemmell once again demonstrated why she deserves all of the hype. Winning her match, 3-0, Gemmell ended her freshman season without dropping a single game...
...scoring phenom has distinguished himself over the course of his career with his willingness to engage in physical play...
...didn’t take long for Cornell to bring the deficit back to one. Freshman phenom Lauriane Rougeau beat Crimson senior netminder Christina Kessler on the Big Red’s first shot of the game, making the score 2-1 with just five minutes gone in the contest...
...Groomed for greatness from infancy, Woods is the rare phenom to fulfill his promise. He's a multiethnic star with a megawatt smile and what was a clean-living image - qualities he harnessed to become the consummate corporate pitchman, the world's richest athlete for eight years running and the target of unending idolatry. When athletes meet the stratospheric expectations heaped upon them, we have fewer incentives to unwrap their shiny packaging. Now that Tiger's brand has been dented, fans who bought Nikes or quaffed Gatorade at his urging may be channeling their disillusionment into moral outrage. They...