Word: sport
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...contest is part of an even bigger bonanza for B.A.S.S. Inc., a Montgomery, Ala.-based company that stages the professional bass-fishing tour and dominates this arcane but fast-growing sport (estimated total U.S. bass anglers: 26 million). B.A.S.S. sets the tournament rules, controls lucrative - sponsorships, handles the marketing and covers the events in its own array of periodicals. The company promotes its contests with a weekly cable-TV show, The Bassmasters, and operates a thriving network of 2,000 amateur fishing clubs...
Gift would prefer to talk about something else. Swimming, say. Or fencing, a sport he's just taken up. But questions of a personal nature are skirted, skimmed, finally finessed. He'd sooner study the lunch menu. "Do you eat cod?" he asks, looking up from the day's offerings. "Well, I don't. I eat haddock instead. Cod is full of worms. I once worked as a fish gutter, and I was supposed to pick the worms out. That was my job. But since you had to fill a certain quota of boxes in order to get paid...
Sweetwater, Tenn., is so small (pop. 5,300), Southern and sedate that local teenagers consider it sport to ogle the traffic on Friday nights. Last week, however, residents had something unusual to engage their attention: Tennessee Meiji Gakuin, the first fully accredited Japanese high school...
This spring, we won three major tournaments posted a record of 14-1, our best since winning the National Championship in 1984. Several of our players earned all-East honors and will soon try out for the all-American team. Harvard rugby is undoubtedly a serious sport...
...feel that this successful season has helped to break down some of the myths surrounding our sport. It is unfortunate, therefore, that your recent coverage of rugby has focused on the negative and disregarded many of the positive aspects of our season. While our tremendously exciting New England Championship was relegated to several paragraphs on page 10, an anonymous person's misperception of one of our social events gained front-page headlines...