Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Racket sports, such as squash and tennis, are prime offenders. In squash it is the confined quarters that often lead to unpremeditated mayhem. But both games involve cutting movement, sharp changes of direction and sudden stops that can cause injuries to knee and ankle. Says Berson: "The knee joint really wasn't designed for these movements." Ankle sprains are common, especially in women whose tendons and ligaments have been stressed by years of wearing high-heeled shoes. Then there are ruptures of the Achilles tendon. In the unconditioned, the unexpected force exerted by rapid movements sometimes causes the tendon...
...years since sedentary jokers could get away with the line: "I get enough exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise." Regular exercise can help make one healthier. The injuries result from the delusion that a few hours of sports are helpful. Eighty percent of the troubles could be avoided, doctors point out, with some simple precautions. According to Dr. Dinesh Patel, co-director of Massachusetts General Hospital's Sports Medicine Clinic, "Sixty percent of athletic injuries could be prevented by training and warmup, another 20% by proper shoes and prescreening for tight joints or other abnormalities...
...matter what the sport, it should be worked into gradually with a warmup of slow stretches preceding activity. And if the body hurts, don't go on. Stop...
...such -and now there is a sequel to the sequel. It is not accurate to say that it is without merit. There is one short scene in which Dick Button, playing a TV color babbler, describes the moves of a Japanese wrestler in terms of figure skating, the only sport his character knows anything about. This is an accurate satire of TV sports reporting, but nothing else in the film has any spark whatsoever. - John Skow
...settled down for a snack of ham sandwiches. Suddenly the No. 2 starboard rod bent crazily in its stanchion, and the whine of racing line pierced the stillness. Strike! "He's here! He's with us!" Peacock screamed. Donn Mann, 48, an experienced sport fisherman, ran to the fighting chair, strapping his canvas harness to the fiber-glass rod. Some swordfish like to tease the bait. Not this one. He had hit with the wallop of a freight train. Mann released the ratchet on the reel to let the fish run. Then, without warning, the line slackened...