Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doing so, it augured one's knowledge with practice, that key ingredient to virtue and the life of reason. The nature of the training has always been unimportant; any sport--individual or team--helps one cultivate one's self-discipline. In other words, it helps one lead the good life...
...should not be jocularly and irreverently approached. It should not be waved for laziness or pseudoinfirmities. It should involve rigorous and extensive practice in the sport one chooses, and a study of the principles that one learns from such practice. When this occurs, Harvard will have returned to one of the most noble pedagogical devices in the Western tradition...
Robinson's act, coming seven years before the Supreme Court struck down "separate but equal," anticipated the coming of the civil rights movement and had an impact on his team, his sport, his race and, most importantly, his country. He opened the door for Willie Mays, Ken Griffey, Jr. and countless others to enter and compete on the same playing field with all of the best players in the world...
...Croquet is a cool sport--it's half chess, half pool, half golf," he said. "Despite it's old-boy connotations, croquet is an enduring pastime which, with new technology, has become more exciting, both to play and watch...
Arguments about the ethics and common sense of such guided ascents had been wafting about the world's always contentious mountaineering community. No question: some clients were inept fools and a danger to everyone. Mountaineering was in danger of becoming an extreme sport for the rich, with gaudy adventure-travel stunts such as being guided up the highest mountain on each continent. A New York society woman named Sandy Hill Pittman was on hand to complete this cycle, along with masses of electronic equipment lugged by Sherpas, including a satellite phone with which she intended to file Internet dispatches from...