Word: sport
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After seven frustrating years as a club sport from 1973 to 1980, and five more disappointing seasons as a varsity team, the squad is off to its best start ever...
...House of Games is not a vehicle carrying a Mamet moral; it is the moral, telling us much about the irresistible pull of our own cleverness and how that must inevitably bring us to disaster. It is Margaret, the tyro games player, who turns out to be a bad sport. She demonstrates in a startling way that some funny, phony games can turn out to have deadly consequences. Finally, she must stop pretending to be one of the boys and act a more traditional role: that of a woman wronged. Is Mamet hinting at an ineradicable difference in the playing...
...kickoff mistaken for a punt. Four punts were blocked for touchdowns. But the football was not as demonstrably bad as all that, just demonstrably not the best. Competition may be relative, but excellence fairly requires the stiffest opposition of the day. And excellence is the fundamental allure of sport. At the same time, the damage to the integrity of the statistics and the standings is probably being exaggerated. Traditionalists at first appalled by Gary Hogeboom's record-tying five touchdown passes in Colts livery were surprised to find out that the 22-year-old record did not belong to Johnny...
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...knew it was the premier rowing event of the fall and a big party event. The first time I went to see it, it was fun. We sat on the banks and had a picnic," recalled Juliet Thompson, a junior who said she was drawn to the sport as well as the revels. "Unlike most of the spectators, we actually watched the races...