Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Green, as per usual, sport a hard-hitting, poor-pitching squad with a .314 team batting average and 27 home runs, plus 44 stolen bases in 62 attempts...
...back of the opponent's goal, anticipating where his teammates would be well before they got there and feeding them passes so unexpected he would often surprise them. For a cover story in 1985, he told TIME, "People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be diverted, factoring in all the interruptions." Don't worry. That sounded just as confusing to most NHL players...
Before Gretzky, back in 1979, America only knew hockey as boxing on ice, a sport that could never take hold south of Route 80. He helped free the game from the goons and clear a path for the more skilled, European game that dominates the NHL today. He overcame his shyness to become the perfect ambassador: humble, accessible, nice and somehow impeccably earnest without being creepy. The biggest off-ice controversy he ever faced was whether being on the cover of Cigar Aficionado sent a bad message to children...
...have proved myself ungifted in every athletic endeavor, and yet there's a part of me that watches pro sports and thinks, "I could have caught that." It was during one of those moments that I asked the people at the NHL to suit me up in goalie pads and let a player take slap shots on me. The strangest part was not that they said yes but that they required me to sign absolutely no legal waivers. This is a tough sport...
...director, Carol Browner, as boss of the Environmental Protection Agency, where she has been a tenacious pollution fighter. The next proof of that will be tough new EPA proposals, expected by the end of the month, for regulations mandating cleaner gasoline and lower limits on auto pollution, particularly from sport utility vehicles. The Administration has pushed through Congress important legislation, such as the California Desert Protection Act, which covers more public land than any other conservation law affecting the Lower 48 states. Clinton and Gore largely beat back--with some exceptions--an assault on environmental laws and regulations by Republicans...