Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What makes the golf swing so hard on the back? University of Southern California orthopedic surgeon Robert G. Watkins says it's the repetitive extremes in rotation and compression that go with the sport. "Spine injuries lead the list of injuries on both the senior and regular PGA tours," says Watkins, spine consultant to the Professional Golfers' Association Tour and editor of The Spine in Sports (Mosby, 1996). "It's true for amateurs...
...Clark, who has been playing the sport since he was five, would like to play professionally--in the minors or in the NHL--for at least a few years after graduation...
...Clearly this is a sport with one of the worst reputations around," says TIME sports senior editor Bill Saporito. "Anything that will move reform along is welcome." Unlike other major sports, which have national organizations and a unified set of standards, professional boxing functions in a world of individual contractors overseen by state boxing regulators with very uneven records. "Boxing is a segmented, cottage industry," says Saporito, and that leaves it wide open to abuses. The latest legislation, which is named after boxing great Muhammad Ali, has a very powerful Senate backer, Arizona Republican John McCain. But it faces tough...
This year, the NCAA gave Stauffer its highest honor, the "Today's Top VIII" award, naming her one of the nation's top undergraduate athletes in any sport or division, male or female...
...Individual awards in a team sport are as much a reflection of the team as of the individual," she said...