Word: puttering
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...Awful" does not begin to describe it. He heaved the ball one-handed from his hip like an amateur shot-putter. It looked like the kind of shot an eight-year-old YMCA player tosses up because he is petrified of the five eight-year-olds on the other team, who are all waving their arms in his face...
...Bill is going to be lost. But the Comeback Kid, who stretched out the Longest Goodbye in history, says he looks forward to getting rested, making money (he just turned down $2 million for a Super Bowl ad), doing good and golfing. But he did give Thomason his favorite putter. Being First Friend wasn't so bad after...
Senior Arthur Ferguson took first in the triple jump and a close second in the long jump to lead the men. Senior shot putter John Kraay and junior pole vaulter Aaron Snead won their respective events to keep Harvard within striking distance in the points tally...
...left Sydney with three gold medals (for the 100-m sprint, the 200 m and the 4 x 400-m relay), two bronzes (for the long jump and the 4 x 100-m relay) and a massive headache, having faced a storm of questions about her husband, injured shot-putter C.J. Hunter, whose positive tests for steroid use were revealed during the Games. Of Jones' ups and downs, the one to remember was the first. In the 100 m she blazed to a time of 10.75 secs. and the largest margin of victory in that race since the 1952 Games...
...must exceed her sprint: Jones won three golds and two bronzes. Unfortunately, that was not the only weight she would have to wear around her neck in Sydney. After she won her first gold, devastating the field in the women's 100 m, came news that her husband, shot putter C. J. Hunter, had tested positive for performance-enhancing substances. Jones questioned the timing of the revelation, which did not implicate her, but didn't blame it for her shortfalls. "Something just wasn't there on those days," she said. But what was was awesome...