Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long ago, Eisner would have been one of that group. He is not, he says, "a cruise guy." This type-A landlubber didn't see himself having fun trapped on a veritable retirement community at sea, where the most extreme sport was shuffleboard. So the Magic is not your grandma's cruise ship. Like Disney's parks and animated features, it is boldly designed to appeal to every demographic...
...know a lot more now than we used to about angry boys who kill cats for sport; "Rusty" Weston made it to age 41 before he started killing people too. He divided his time between his parents' home in Valmeyer, Ill., and a shack on a half-acre plot in Rimini, Mont., a dirt-road hamlet in the shadow of Red Mountain named by isolated Irish miners smitten by a touring performance of Tchaikovsky. He panned for gold with little luck, tinkered with junked cars and lived on government disability payments that were based on a history of mental illness...
...year's Tour may not reach the finish line. But the race's lone moment of nobility, a protest slowdown Wednesday in which all the riders coasted through the leg in sympathy with teams that had been up all night with police, could serve as the inspiration for the sport to unite against its demons. Says Sancton: "I think they'll all get together -- the riders, the coaches, the sponsors -- and agree that if the times are a little less spectacular, so be it, but the sport has to be returned to a natural footing...
With Big Mac and Junior closing in on the 37-year-old home-run record, baseball has hit itself out of a jam. Just four years ago, baseball was on strike, without a commissioner, canceling a World Series and generally running a brilliant anti-p.r. campaign for a sport that already was too long and too slow. "They've got to address their own house," says Fay Vincent, baseball's last real commissioner, who was fired in 1992 by owners who wanted more control. "They've got to market the game, move it back into the inner city, bring...
...despite all this ineptitude, baseball accidentally saved itself, with a mixture of talent and nostalgia. The geriatric sport has suddenly remembered how to tell its own story. ESPN ads feature not McGwire or the eminently marketable Griffey, but a Ty Cobb impersonator, who is oddly recognizable for a guy who hasn't played a game since...