Word: sporting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold medals, Lewis won few hearts, and the 29- ft. 2 1/2-in. long jump of Bob Beamon has stayed beyond him. "To me, winning and losing was never a big deal," he says now. "I enjoy competing; I enjoy training. I've had a lot of good memories in sport. If nothing more was to happen, I don't think I could complain...
During one Monday-evening binge, Hagan, 23, and his "home boys" decided to have some sport with a rival gang. Flushed with bravado, five of them piled into a blue Buick and sped toward enemy turf. There they spotted four teenagers, two of them girls, standing at a corner in front of a cinder-block wall covered with gang graffiti. Hagan grabbed a semiautomatic rifle and, with a fellow home boy known as "Baby Monster," strolled to the corner...
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...this regard, baseball has always been different. Hockey has become almost a parody of what a contact sport should be. Football has always striven for grit; bloody noses are badges of honor. And even basketball, supposedly a non-contact sport, celebrates perspiration, endurance and size...