Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hurtling but affecting clip; Fiennes seems less concerned with weighing alternatives than with feverishly fending off suicide. He makes an athletic-looking prince, and he manages to appear beautifully, brainlessly exultant in the final scene, with fencing foil in hand-savoring a duel that he considers mere sport but that will bring his world crashing down. Throughout, he is marvelously complemented by Francesca Annis in the role of his mother. She gives us a queen who is convincing at each downward turn in her trajectory: as a figure of brittle jubilation when celebrating her "o'erhasty marriage" to her late...
Dennis Conner, the consummate yachtsman if not the consummate gentleman, is even more of a celebrity in New Zealand than in the U.S. Way Down Under, where sailing is a serious sport, the San Diego skipper is known not only as Mr. America's Cup, though, but also as Dirty Dennis. The moniker stems from his having publicly accused the Kiwis of cheating in 1987, when they were on the verge of winning the Cup's Challenger series. The charge was officially discounted, but the flustered New Zealanders, despite a 37-1 record in the trials, came unglued. Conner went...
...accident that Conner, now 52, has survived six America's Cups in two decades, spurred the transformation of the event into a high-tech-and highly commercialized-business, and dominated his sport as much as any athlete in history. "Dennis is totally focused on winning," says John Marshall, who was once the head of Conner's design team but is now the chief of a rival syndicate. "If people are in the way, he'll walk over them or kick them out of the way. The humane side is not there, but he's a good leader and an extremely...
While perhaps not as notorious as the NCAA men's basketball Final Four weekend, the women's water polo NCAA Championship weekend shares the most important thing with the culmination of March Madness--it crowns the best collegiate team in its sport...
...Cosell. For a generation, his nasal drone-abrasive, unmistakable, too easily imitated by bad comedians-was the premiere guide to the nation's professional playing fields. Though he entered sportscasting in 1953 through the unglamorous venue of Little League baseball, by the '60s Cosell was a fixture at abc Sports, gaining a measure of attention because of his controversial support for Muhammad Ali when the boxer was stripped of his title for resisting the Vietnam draft. Cosell reached the peak of his influence with the Monday Night Football broadcasts of the '70s; his self-promoted willingness to "tell it like...