Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trotman and her dual-sport diversity entered Harvard. But she broke her foot and then her leg playing hockey in her freshman year and was forced to sit out the season...
...whole stolid history of the most consistently disappointing annual spectacle in America, a two-sided chess match is not only promised but guaranteed. The only question about Walsh and Wyche is which of them is wormier with ideas. Their imaginations are so active that the very canons of the sport are under strain. The National Football League is worried...
...SPORT: It' s a real contest this year, as the XXIII version of the ultimate football game rematches the 49ers and the Bengals...
Others, particularly those fighting for a starting position, focus their complete attention on the sport. The sport becomes an obsession. "Once you're starting, you want to make sure you don't mess up," Reidy says. "You want to know the plays twice as well as everyone else. You're running even harder in practice because you don't want to make mistakes...
...have an orienation meeting with new coaches," Malekoff says. "We talk about the fact that, okay, we have a bunch of freshmen coming here and in addition to making the transition to college life they're playing a sport. That can be terrific because it provides him with an immediate group of people he can be friends with. On the other hand, it can be a negative situation depending on how much pressure that kid puts on himself...