Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying out in foreign climes. (Warning: comedy sometimes becomes misplaced in translation.) On Australia: "I love your flag [above]: Britain at night." On his neuroses while scuba diving off the coast of Queensland: "I see a rock, there's a fish, and, yes, I'm still alive." On Australian sport: "You have Australian-rules football here. Of course you do. You're in Australia." To a fan who shrieked out, "Jerry, I love you!": "I love you too. But I think that we should see other people." --Reported by Tim Blair...
...Michael Jordan the greatest ever? Not just the greatest basketball player but the greatest athlete: a figure who not only dominates his sport but also changes the way it's played, who dominates that sport not only in his own time but also across time? Where does Jordan stand relative to Babe Ruth, say, or Muhammad...
...wheel to roll up Gordon's endorsement, one measure of the man's crossover status as a national marketing icon. With two Winston Cup stock-car championships in the past three seasons, the California-born, Indiana-honed speed merchant is one of the hottest athletes in an even hotter sport...
That's all the marketers need to hear. Notes Charlotte's Wheeler, who has seen all of NASCAR's 50 years: "He's got the potential of doing what athletes like Palmer and Ali, Joe Namath and Babe Ruth and DiMaggio did, and that is to transcend the sport they're in." At 200 m.p.h., that may be especially easy...
Unfortunately for the Crimson, they dropped the ones that counted, as Princeton added yet another sport to its impressive belt of Ivy domination...