Word: sportingly
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...pleasure to read about the resurgence of baseball and home-run hitters Ken Griffey Jr., Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa [SPORT, July 27]. As a lifetime fan of baseball, I have more trouble enjoying this great game as its keepers continue to try to destroy it. I do have one complaint. Your list of the leading Cy Young award winners for best pitcher showed Steve Carlton winning four of them with St. Louis. While Carlton started his career with the Cardinals, his greatest success came with the Philadelphia Phillies. I know because at times he was the only reason...
Baseball is a game invented by morons, watched by morons and played by morons. A more boring sport is difficult to find. Baseball exemplifies all that is simple, inane and childlike in the minds of Americans. What other sport is egocentric enough to have a World Series without world teams involved? PETER T. LOCHTIE Laval...
Before the 1994 strike, I lived and breathed baseball and attended two to three dozen games a year. I knew it was a business, but I thought that--for the lords of baseball--the sport came first. When the postseason was canceled, and there was no World Series, I learned that baseball is a business first and a sport second. If the owners and players don't care about the outcome of a season, then why should I? Baseball may be back, but this disgruntled fan isn't. MARC I. WHINSTON New York City...
WASHINGTON: Get ready for the Bill Gates Show. In one of the most bizarre twists of the antitrust action against Microsoft, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson agreed Tuesday to turn Chairman Bill's forthcoming deposition into a spectator sport. Lawyers for several media companies had resurrected an obscure turn-of-the-century law that says such occasions "shall be open to the public as freely as are trials in open court." And try as he might to ignore it, Jackson had to admit that the statute still stands...
This quartet gained exposure in New York City less for its club shows than for its stunts: creating a supremely dumb sport, printing up sports cards and playing it outside the Today show set; and going to the post office dressed as the sketch of the Unabomber. The four (unlike most troupes, theirs includes a woman) met in Chicago, where they did time at Second City, developing their punk paranoia. "We all had fun doing the theater thing," says UCBer Matt Besser, "but throughout the seven years, the overriding goal was to get this thing on TV." Starting...