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While most students trickle off campus, heading home for nearly two weeks of winter holidays, some winter-sport athletes have their vacations interrupted by obligations to Harvard...
As brawls goes, it was hardly the worst that sport has to offer. Europeans accustomed to soccer's bloodbaths must have been chuckling: You call that a riot? In five minutes of mayhem that was repeated thousands of times on TV, Indiana Pacers forward Ron Artest was seen leading a fast break into the stands at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Mich. Artest was charging down a local lout, John Green, who hit him with a full beverage cup after Artest got into an on-court scuffle with the Detroit Pistons' Ben Wallace. Several teammates joined Artest, punching anyone...
...players involved were black, most of the fans white), but Shropshire argues that race is less a factor than it was during the 1970s, when the predominance of black players in the NBA gained widespread attention--not to mention in an earlier era when black players in any sport were a novelty. "Look at what Jackie Robinson had to endure," Shropshire says. "For three years, he never went into the stands, and the abuse hurled at that time was more severe. A small percentage of fans have forever done the wrong thing. It's up to the individual athletes...
Innovations, from PVI's range rainbow to computerized plays etched on the screens to ever more intimate camera angles, are only enriching the NFL's small-screen legacy. Television thrust football, more than any other pro-sports league, into the national psyche when in the 1960s NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle negotiated deals with the networks to beam his game, just once a week, into living rooms across the country on fall and winter Sunday afternoons. The sport has maintained its allure ever since: Fox and CBS each average more than 19 million viewers a week for their Sunday games, placing...
...hitter who seems on his way to eclipsing Hank Aaron's career home-run record of 755. But it is Bonds' confirmed contact with illegal steroids that sent runners into motion last week to confront the biggest drug scandal in baseball history. Suddenly the most open secret in the sport was out, and it implicated baseball's biggest star and the titanic records he had accumulated. "I will leave no stone unturned in accomplishing our goal of zero tolerance by the start of spring training," vowed Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig in New York City. But that...