Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite her outstanding doubles success, Sally prefers singles competition. "I'm an individualist by nature, and tennis is the individual sport," Sally said in a recent interview. "I feel like it's me against the world out on the court, and there's no one to turn to but myself. I have to dig deep down into myself to keep fighting back if I'm behind. It definitely makes me a stronger person overall...
Ultimate frisbee is today an intercollegiate team sport at more than 60 colleges across the country, played according to international rules patented by the Whammo Frisbee Corporation...
Ultimate frisbee is a non-contact sport, with players obligated to play the frisbee and not the man. Nevertheless, action often heats up as players use arm and leg blocks on defense, and jump and dive to catch or obstruct passes...
...fruitless intellectual exercise to speculate about which of these spunky little fellows could outdistance a normal human in a physical competition. Sky Lo Lo, Little Brutus, The Jamaican Kid, and a dozen others are arm wrestling champs in their own home districts. Others, less proficient in their sport, have had to humble themselves in the off-season by working on circus side shows, collecting disability insurance (achondroplasm, legally, is a disability), or working in the kind of factories whose owners secretly build oil drilling equipment into prosthetic limbs...
...fake violence and feigned pain. The crowd falls for it (the hungering suspension of disbelief), and when the greatest hero (Bruno) meets the most vicious villain (Koloff) their dissembling of pain and terror raises the crowd to levels of cruelty and desperation you don't find in any sport. In sports, the violence is sublimated to the greater purpose of wining goals and scoring points--even in hockey the fighting is incidental. But professional wrestling is the thing itself: unalloyed physical violence. A dispassionate observer could point out that in wrestling no one ever gets more than a few bruises...