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...love students, I love the passion they have for sport,” he added. “It’s nice to hear how they think...
...touch each other, hold each other, respect each other. He was teaching them life skills. If a kid is hunched over with his pants hanging down, his self-esteem is affected, it’s different than if he was standing up straight. [Dancing] is a team sport and you’re forced to learn incredible skills. I felt it was a commercial movie, but it had a message. The more programs [like Pierre’s] could expand, the better for everyone...
...charismatic Chinese martial-arts star; by the descendants of Qing-dynasty kung fu master Huo Yuanjia, whom Li portrayed in the recent film Fearless; in Beijing. Huo's relatives say that the movie contains many inaccuracies about his life?for example, that he killed innocent people for sport?and maligns the family's reputation. The suit, which also names as defendants the movie's producers and distributors, calls for the film to be pulled from theaters and a public apology to be issued...
...sorest points is the air of privilege surrounding Duke's lacrosse team. Lacrosse, originated by Native Americans, is a rapidly growing sport in the U.S., but it has historically been a game of the privileged and protected, played at lite prep schools and colleges and at public schools located mostly in wealthy areas. A favorite slogan at Duke: "There's only one fraternity on campus--LAX [the nickname for lacrosse]." Fifteen members of the team have committed prior, mostly frat-jock infractions, ranging from public urination to noise violations...
...Arsenal. Shortly after, a "friendly match" between Spain and England was marred by the all-too-familiar simian noises. Perhaps most troubling, the xenophobic chants and racist slogans are no longer confined to bands of Ultras. "What concerns me," says Javier Duran, president of the Observatory of Racism in Sport, the body created by the Spanish government to monitor xenophobic incidents, "is how generalized the phenomenon has become. At Zaragoza, it was the whole stadium chanting those ape noises, not just a handful of fans." To be sure, racist insults can be heard in stadiums elsewhere in Europe. In Italy...