Word: sported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cross-country skiing, or ski touring, which for years has dawdled in the valleys, a poor cousin to the downhill variety, has suddenly taken off. With more than 3 million devotees, easily double the number of only two years ago, it is the country's fastest-growing winter sport. "It is bigger than the bowling boom of the '50s, the tennis boom of the '60s and the running boom of the '70s," says Chicago's Morrie Mages, owner of the country's largest sporting-goods store, who has seen his sales of cross-country...
...came to this sport to avoid commercialization," says Jonathan Baum, a Manhattan lawyer. "It was an unpleasant shock for me when I first skied on a groomed trail. I said, 'Hey, I'm not the first person to be here...
Although there are some 900 ski touring centers with specially groomed and graded trails, such amenities remain optional. Cross-country skiing can still conjure up the image of solitary figures etching fine lines in unbroken snow. Tim Murphy, a poet from Minneapolis, sees the sport as "a chance, if you seek out the right places, to completely shuck civilization and enjoy the pristine beauty of the snow and cold...
Nehemiah is still only a sophomore at the University of Maryland. "He's practically a baby, and he's already run these miraculous times," marvels Villanova's Coach Jim ("Jumbo") Elliott, one of the leading coaches in the sport. Last Friday night the youngster further embellished his indoor record this year by winning the national Amateur Athletic Union Championship...
...immediate future with London deeply riven by intramural combat between "rockabilly rebels," "skinhead gangs," "soul rebels" and "zydeco kids," is in part a smart parable about musical rivalries. Even more to the point, it is a shrewd reflection on class and generational warfare, as Strummer sings, "The sport of today is exciting/ The In crowd are into infighting/ . . . It's brawn against brain or knife against chain/ But it's all young blood flowing down the drain...