Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Swimmers put more time and more effort into their sport than almost any other team on campus. From October right through March the swim team holds workouts twice a day, including weight sessions on Nautilus every afternoon. While most sleep through the early mornings, swimmers are doing their first workout from 6:45 to 8:15 a.m., and afternoons they return for another two-to three-hour session. On an average day each swimmer does about 400 laps of a 25-yard pool in varying combinations of strokes and intervals, staring at the black line on the bottom...
...AMERICAN PHONY always gives himself away by his colour. There are other hints, of course--Dunhill cigarettes, references to "Bianca" in conversation, upraised sport-jacket collars, to name only a few--but the single guaranteed, dead-to-rights giveaway of pretension and affectation beyond bounds of normal tolerance is the spelling of color with...
...last fight, and that from now on the hands of stone will never do anything more strenuous than count the estimated $8 million he earned from this fight (Leonard made about $6 million). Said Duran: "I have been fighting for a long time. I have gotten tired of the sport. I am going to retire." As criticism of his eighth-round walkout grew, however, Duran had second thoughts. "I will not retire and I will seek a revenge fight with Sugar Ray Leonard," he said. Lest any paying customers feel cheated, he said he would give his share...
...philosophy behind Hays' confidence is a simple one, reflective of her experience in the sport, "If you talk about the little, petty things in advance, they just don't grow into the big things." With that, she dismisses talk of last year's troubled team...
Winning may not be everything in sport, but it sure makes the experience worth-while...