Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both researchers are longtime NBA fans and their interest in the sport was a primary motivation behind the study. But Karen stressed that simply because the analysis focuses on prejudice in athletics does not mean that its results should be viewed as trivial...
Throughout the season, coach Johnny Lee's squad has presented a balanced attack which Harvard wrestling teams have lacked in recent years. With strength throughout the lineup, the team as a whole has found the secret to winning. Wrestling, however is quite different from most team sports; in this sport of individuals, the whole can only equal the sum of the parts. For Harvard this year, the sum has reached astounding proportions...
...that all the anticipation and palaver of Super Bowl XVI is past, and sports on TV are reduced to what Red Smith dismissingly called the "back and forth" games of basketball and hockey, it becomes possible to talk more sensibly about sport's real place in television...
Neither slick nor glib, they all suit a film that may finally disarm everyone with its full-frontal naturalness, its unsmirking bawdiness, its obvious liking for athletes as people, and its refusal (most of the time) to poeticize sport. Personal Best is likable precisely because it is so unembarrassed...
...people have the wrong idea about women's ice hockey. Who knows where they pick it up, but they picture some sort of roller-derby-revised, an "unladylide" pseudo-sport. "Most people are really surprised when I tell them I play hockey," says Firkins Reed, co-captain of Harvard's women's team. "Some are intrigued, but others think it's awful and the sport ought to be abolished. 'Women don't play football,' they...