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...defeat as a boon to an iniquitous empire. Sports officials on both sides exploited the conflict to raise funds. The political overtones helped motivate athletes. Says swimmer Rowdy Gaines, who won three Olympic gold medals: "I always found it helpful to have the Soviets around so I could psych myself up against an enemy of my country." At its most extreme, politics pollutes sportsmanship; the U.S. boycotted the 1980 Olympics held in Moscow, and the Soviets snubbed the 1984 Games held in Los Angeles...
...spectators are right in your face," Leschly said. "Columbia gets a lot of people out to watch the match, trying to psych you out. It's very intimidating...
Wearing snug aerobic leotards and boots, the high-stepping Illinettes do their best to psych up fans at football and basketball games. Though the task force suggested that boozy frat and tailgate parties should go too, it's the threatened pompon ban that has the campus stirred up. "We've been made a scapegoat," charges Illinette squad captain Pam Withers, 20, who says the Illinettes are campus role models. "We consider this a serious sport...
Despite the Human Subject Committee's insistence that it will allow responsible research into sensitive subjects, the department conveyed a clear signal to the students in Psych 1000 that the committee will squelch any proposals that concern...you know...
...Palestinian woman with the butt of his rifle, he would have decapitated himself. Perhaps Larew found the inscription "Bullshit!" across the photo because it claimed to portray something that was not occuring in the picture. Though, I suppose it better suits his argument to chalk it up to Psych 1 "denial...