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Senior track leader Sean Barrett is no stranger to a challenge. Whether captaining a three-season varsity sport or managing his grueling academic schedule, he has always been able to overcome obstacles. However, as spring approaches and graduation looms near, Barrett will face another test—he has signed up to serve in the United States Marines...
...obsessed is Kristol with marginal missteps by Democrats that he loses sight of the big picture. Kristol wrote that Bush "crossed up Democrats" by replacing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and rejecting the Iraq Study Group's change in strategy. The political maneuver might be nice sport, providing the Administration with a few moments of relief. But Kristol failed to point out that Bush continues to lose the only battle that counts - the one in Iraq. Sanford Rubin Rochester, New York...
...Cockfighting is to Nicaragua what NASCAR is to the United States: to the outsider it might look like a bunch of guys sitting around circular grandstands drinking beers and calling it sport, but a closer look reveals a unique cultural insight that few other events offer. "Cockfighting is a gentleman's sport that was first brought here by the Spanish," says Mario Tapia, publisher of the national bimonthly cockfighting magazine Gente de Gallos. "It's an event that draws all sectors of society together, everyone from doctors to politicians to the rural poor...
...Cockfighting is undoubtedly the most popular sport in Nicaragua. Even the smallest hamlet has at least one cockfighting arena, and no town's patron saint festivals are complete without a cockfight tournament. There are 46 registered cockfighting arenas in the capital alone, and many other clandestine ones in people's homes. Managua's mayor recently announced the city's plans to build the largest cockfighting arena in all of Central America. The sport is illegal in the United States, but there are no movements to outlaw cockfighting in Nicaragua. Considering that 22 of the 91 lawmakers in the last National...
...Still, there’s an undeniable advantage to taking a class about sports when you play one, too. And just as last spring’s highly-popular Psychology 1504, "Positive Psychology," seemed to boost the morale of each and every one of its enrollees, Psychology of Sport is a heightened experience for athletes...