Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sport: Baseball's stats whiz takes on the Hall of Fame...
...several decades, Harvard rowers have visited Leavitt & Peirce every day to check daily line-ups. Coaches through the years have noted the irony of posting line-ups for a sport as aerobically vigorous as rowing in a shop that sells tobacco...
Periodization is a sport which pundits fancy playing. But perhaps now it is time to periodize the self-aggrandizing pundits of television news. The initial feeding frenzy of the O.J. Simpson "case" having subsided for the moment, our collective decency can dare to re-assert itself. The O.J. Simpson imbroglio marks the final evaporation of that always-gossamer line between (what has been charitably called) "television news" and televisual entertainment...
...Sport: The World Cup is a triumph no matter who wins...
...students earn points -- and are relentlessly cheered on -- for good behavior. High scorers are rewarded with special privileges at the end of the day, but each morning kids start afresh with another shot at the rewards. Special classes also drill in social skills: sharing, being a good sport, ignoring annoyances rather than striking out in anger. Only 35% of the kids at the center are on stimulant drugs, less than half the national rate for ADHD kids...