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...house!' It's good advice. Come join the 6.8 million who are in a book club, or the 196,000 who attend pro beach volleyball, or the 680,000 who go to tractor pulls every month. There's even 3 million people who enjoy a sport called 'muzzleloading,' which involves shooting a gun that looks 200 years...
...Attleboro ban drew instant criticism--and not just from playground libertarians and young players. "It's not the right route to take," says Charlene Burgenson, executive director of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, who believes tag is "exactly the type of activity that is appropriate at recess." It won't harm kids "physically or psychologically," she says, and argues that the exercise could even help, given the rising rates of obesity among young people...
Watching the races, one had to wonder whether perhaps Winderman’s ignorance on the subject of rowing wasn’t for the best. “You look at the sport...it’s the same thing over and over again,” said Oli Rosenbladt, the women’s coach at Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Mass. “You have to be a bit of a nut to get into...
...Stegmaier first became interested in the sport after seeing his sister rowing for her club on the Mississippi River...
...Webb joined the team after playing varsity football and lacrosse in high school. Originally recruited to play football at Yale, Webb came to Harvard and decided to give crew a shot.His story is common, as many former high school athletes see rowing as a way to continue playing a sport while trying something both completely different and extremely well known within and outside Harvard.“People have asked me why I didn’t just try to walk-on to football,” Webb says. “Harvard’s football team...