Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faintly sad piping of a calliope, a pair of new extremes have cast unusually shaped shadows across the face of sport, causing it to break out in a smile of unexpected dimensions. One is a basketball player of 7 ft. 7 in. but just 208 lbs., the other a football player of 308 lbs. but just 6 ft. 2 in. Since their sideshow duties extend to the legitimate arena, neither is an Eddie Gaedel, the baseball midget of 1951 with "a strike zone barely visible to the naked eye." But both are Primo Carneras from boxing's '30s, outsize attractions...
...there are no deer hunters in Bean's, there are no fox trappers either, unless they are in disguise. The price of fox and muskrat will be down this year, but raccoon will be good, about $20 for a top skin. Trapping is occupation and sport in Maine, and last year 22,089 raccoon were taken. Bean's does not sell leg-hold traps but does sell shotguns, including a Fabio Zanotti twelve gauge...
Though they don't sport long white coats and M.D. badges, the students observed in one recent tutorial session resembled a conference of doctors brainstorming over a cutting-edge clinical problem. Since Goodenough doesn't often volunteer the answers, students appear to confront the clinical and basic science issues as if those issues had never before been discovered, addressed, answered, and summarily entombed in a textbook...
...best varsity sport for years at Brown has been water polo. Just like their fellow mellow students at the U-Cal-Irvine, for Brownies, it's water polo first, last and always...
...system of rotating umpires, many of whom are perfectly shaped for rotating, rather than appointing the most competent men to the most critical games. Even a number of the umpires seemed to concur with this. Of course, a cry has gone out again for incorporating replay technology into the sport, leaving the toughest decisions to "the man upstairs," as football's Tex Schramm solemnly refers to the fellow in the press box with the videocassette recorder...