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...billion a year. So the ICC has drawn up a list of around 100 "undesirables" to keep an eye on. With more than $5 million in prize money available - the winning side gets $2 million - under a battery of TV cameras that capture almost every blink, smile, spit and curse, and now help the umpires make hairline decisions on whether a batsman should be called in or out, the players should have plenty more to think about than match fixing. Once played sedately on the village greens of England and known as the gentlemen's game, cricket is transforming itself...
...work when he was attacked by a crocodile. The beast grabbed both his arms in its jaws and was dragging him into deep water when Chawinga decided to put up a fight. Make that a bite. He sank his teeth into the croc's nose, forcing the creature to spit him out in pain. Incredibly, Chawinga managed to swim to shore and safety...
Like the time in her first year when Tiffany and her roommates staged a water gun siege on Annenberg. Whitton recalls how stereotypes worked against her: “Some guy thought I had spit in his ear! He said, ‘Well, you’re a softball player.’” Whitton assures FM that she steers clear of the chaw. Nor is she just about softball. She is a government concentrator, writing a thesis on the National Organization for Women, and she co-chairs the student-athlete advisory committee...
...with the rest of my class the terms we would be expected to know. Be sure to talk about X and Y, cautioned the TF: we’ll take points off if you forget to mention W and Z. And so when the midterm came along I dutifully spit out W-Z, having still very little idea what any of them mean. The only word that adequately characterizes this endless pursuit—making sure we have done the reading or shown up for lecture, or at the very least have found a study group that did?...
...with the rest of my class the terms we would be expected to know. Be sure to talk about X and Y, cautioned the TF: we’ll take points off if you forget to mention W and Z. And so when the midterm came along I dutifully spit out W-Z, having still very little idea what any of them mean. The only word that adequately characterizes this endless pursuit—making sure we have done the reading or shown up for lecture, or at the very least have found a study group that did?...