Word: sportingly
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Which, perhaps, is a polite way of saying USA Gymnastics wants to avoid a repetition of the '92 Games, when spectators, sports columnists and even some coaches were appalled by the joyless intensity that pervaded the competition. It is also an indirect response to a book by San Francisco journalist Joan Ryan, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes, that dwells on the least savory aspects of elite gymnastics. Ryan decries the sport's preference in recent years forprepubescent bodies and the subsequent eating disorders among many world-class gymnasts. She describes ruthless coaches who virtually starve their charges, athletes...
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Major League Baseball came a step closer to losing its antitrust exemption when the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-8 to lift the rule. No other professional league has such a deal, which classifies baseball as a sport rather than a business, and thusallows employers to skirt some federal labor laws. The measure now goes to the Senate floor, where a vote is expected to be extremely close...
That's pretty much the reaction provoked by a reading of Sleepers. Internal contradictions pile up. "We followed every pro sport with religious fervor and adolescent passion," Carcaterra writes on one page. On the next: "We cared little for Knicks basketball and barely tolerated Giants football." The author writes emotionally of a Greek hot-dog vendor he and his friends robbed: "We never saw the tiny, airless fourth-floor room he lived in, a 40-minute walk from his station, its only comfort a tattered collection of pictures from home, crudely taped to the wall nearest the worn mattress...
...successfully acting as host to the 1994 World Cup last July, the U. S. proved it could embrace soccer, at least on a temporary basis. In Uruguay this July for the 1995 Copa America, the U.S. proved it could actually play the sport...