Word: sport
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Harvard boasts an extraordinary number of retired athletes. Pick a large rooming group at random and chances are good that someone excelled at a varsity sport in high school which they no longer play competitively. Many recruited athletes never wear the Crimson colors, choosing to pursue other interests. And a whole other group make a name for themselves on the Harvard playing fields and then quit...
...should be added that Borg always hopped up from the grass quickly, because he will be missed for his grace here too. Posturing in sport to day has become almost a sport itself. Like a man beholding his first sunset, baseball's Reggie Jackson stands and admires every home run. After sacking the quarterback, football's Mark Gastineau removes himself to a clearing and makes muscles. Borg, who had "the right kind of courage," as Bergelin once said, never pointed to himself. He never even seemed to care if anyone read the advertisements. - By Tom Callahan
...Kirkland House senior's attraction to the sport began even before he started rooting for anyone. "My father used to take me skating all the time," he recalls. "I was about two or three...
Nothing else about the makeshift football season was as well arranged as last week's championship match in the National Football Conference, the Dallas Cowboys vs. the Washington Redskins, one of sport's liveliest running arguments, where the score (31-17, Washington this time) is never really final. The grudge between these Cowboys and Redskins traces to historical events other than the familiar differences between cowboys and Indians...
Both cities emphasize football. The year that Allen arrived in Washington, baseball withdrew; the Senators moved to Texas. By the time he departed in 1977, Washington was entrenched as a one-sport town. Even in its championship season of 1978, the Washington Bullets professional basketball team attracted only polite support. Enthusiasm for the local hockey team, the Capitals, and various college teams in the vicinity is also meager. In contrast, the Redskins have sold out 122 consecutive home games, the league record by far. Meanwhile, Texans wholeheartedly embrace only two sports, as Jones Ramsey, the venerable University of Texas promoter...