Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That runners often ramble on about the benefits of their sport is simple testimony to a very sad fact of contemporary life: the experience of well-being and profound physical vitality is a rarity in our culture...
...university presidents have to their credit a "best sportwriting of the year" award. Giamatti does, for his 1977 Harper's magazine article eulogizing Tom Seaver's relationship with the New York Mets the fall after Seaver was sold. Giamatti in fact proclaims that baseball is "a sport that touches on what is most important in American life"--a belief enhanced by a whole theory he says is epitomized by Seaver. "The sadness of Seaver was that he came East with a dream and somehow it didn't work...
...Somehow the rules were changed, the game was changed, and he got sold," Giamatti says leaning back and gesticulating as though he were teaching a class. He goes on. "You know, the interesting thing about baseball is that it engages the individual in a team sport which is profoundly reliant on the individual. Not like football where you can't tell where the ball is. It's clear where everything is in a baseball field, you can see it. And you're there alone, but you're part of the group. When you're the offense, as it were...
...Equestrian Team to a world championship at Burghley, England, and winning for himself a gold medal. Now Bruce Davidson, 28, cool, aristocratic, and every lean inch a horseman, prepared under a merciless Kentucky sun to defend his title against the best riders in his dangerous and specialized sport...
...Lexington, his mount often was Irish Cap, a big 14-year-old bay that had carried him to success in both the 1974 Burghley competition and the 1976 Olympics, where he had been a member of the winning team. Says Davidson of the unremitting work: "If you play any sport on this level, you have to give it all you have...