Word: sportingly
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...annual profits, has handed out $350 million over the last decade to more than 1,500 good causes across the northeast. From its $2 million endowment of the gleaming Sage Gateshead concert hall, to the $300,000 it funneled into help for local prostitutes, "almost anything that happens in sport, in the arts, the community, charities," says James Ramsbotham, chief executive of the North East Chamber of Commerce, "they are at the heart...
...intuition tells us there's a difference between innate advantages and acquired ones. A swimmer born with webbed hands might have an edge, but a swimmer who had skin grafts to turn feet into flippers would pose a problem. Elite sport is unkind to the human body; high school linemen bulk up to an extent that may help the team but wreck their knees. What about the tall girl who wants her doctor to prescribe human growth hormone because her coach said three more inches of height would guarantee her that volleyball scholarship: Unfair, or just unwise? Where exactly...
...fascinating debates about what the meaning of competition is, and endless debate over where to draw the line," says Tom Murray, president of the Hastings Center, a bioethics think tank. "Don't underestimate how difficult it will be to evaluate all the technologies that are likely to filter into sport...
Will Ferrell's cocky, bimbo-loving character Chazz (an "ice-devouring tornado of sex") in the figure-skating spoof Blades of Glory would have found a soulmate in Christopher Bowman, a star of the sport in the 1980s and '90s. "Bowman the Showman," a former child actor, improvised routines at the last minute, winked at the cameras and flirted with female fans. He won the men's nationals in 1989 and '92, but his fights with coaches and off-rink habits?drinking, cocaine, women?began to overshadow his talent. At the time of his death from unknown causes...
...Hollywood, the latest fashion trend continues to be baby bumps as more and more starlets trade in their haute coutour for stretch pants. Everyone from J. Lo (twins!) to Nicole Kidman is preggers, including Halle Berry, Pamela Anderson and Nancy Kerrigan. People magazine is starting to sport more pregnant women than Maternity Monthly. But one pregnancy in particular has ignited a media frenzy, even winning more coverage than that war in Iran or whatever. Famed megastar Tracey Gold, who ascended to superstardom on hit-TV show Growing Pains…it was a show on ABC Family back...