Word: sport
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...sport that I vowed never to play because I like contact sports. It seems like it shouldn't even be called a sport, but it's the most challenging, relaxing, frustrating game ever invented...
...hair, pummeling each other with deadly weapons, or drinking motor oil qualifies as “manly” is as ridiculous as saying Red Sox designated hitter David Oritz is slender. (In case you fit another gay stereotype, the Red Sox is a baseball team, baseball is a sport, and sport is outdoor athletic activity performed by teams.) I don’t recall a chapter in “Manliness,” last year’s sensation from Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, entitled, “Power Tools, Poison...
...That’s because the class, Psychology 1003, has a different focus that most Psych classes. It’s not cognitive, abnormal, or even positive psych—it’s the Psychology of Sport. And not surprisingly, the students reflect the subject matter...
...it’s Baltzell. The visiting psychology professor from Boston University is also a former Olympian and National Rowing Champion. But when asked about her aim for the newly-offered class, she’s quick to point out the emphasis on the psych—not the sport...
...Baltzell stopped short of saying that the class was designed specifically for athletes, but considering the makeup and the topics covered—the syllabus’ lecture topics range from “Coaching and Being Coached” to “Drug Use in Sport and Exercise”—it’s easy to see who the class has in mind...