Word: racer
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...tennis and golf, snowboarding has functioned with independently contracted athletes enjoying, in some cases, six-figure contracts. At competitions, snowboarders are usually adorned with various sponsors' logos. Within the Olympic system, competitors must wear officially sanctioned uniforms provided by a contracted supplier. Mark Fawcett, Canada's dominant giant-slalom racer, who draws a good portion of his income from Fila, must suspend that contract to advertise Nike, official sponsor of the Canadian team. At one point, Fawcett was so frustrated by the rule that he tried to join the New Zealand team. In the end, he decided to go Canadian...
Kelley, a freestyler/backstroker from Milwaukee, is also showing promise as a swift Crimson racer. Look for two other freshmen. Hope Lampert and Regina Stuart, to turn in some good times with backstroke and freestyle swims...
...good new ones include two great punch line shorts, "Sea Slugs!" and "Yes, Timmy, There is a Santa Claus." (The latter, like others in the show, may be familiar to many viewers, despite the "premiere" labeling.) "Fast Driver" parodies "Speed Racer" with results hysterical even for those unfamiliar with the original show's idiotic plotting, redundant dialogue and silly visual effects (here, the usual overhead view of a speedway's race line-up before start includes eight or nine bona fide cars, an airplane and an enormous spermatozoa). "Fast Driver" covers the anime-parody territory far better than "Booby Trap...
...then called. During the Korean War, he was an F-86 fighter pilot, along with pioneering astronauts Gus Grissom and Buzz Aldrin. After 15 years in uniform, he resigned his commission to write full time. Hollywood beckoned--he scripted one of Robert Redford's early hits, Downhill Racer--but Salter eventually retreated to Colorado and New York's Long Island to concentrate on his meticulously crafted novels and short fiction. (A collection, Dusk and Other Stories, won the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award, and his 1956 novel, The Hunters, was recently reprinted by Counterpoint Press...
...Crew racer Angus R. MacLaurin '00 sets a world record in the two kilometer lightweight race at the World Indoor Rowing Championships. The same night another first-year rower is treated at University Health Services for blood poisoning that developed after rowing on the Charles River, the second such case this year...