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Word: sportingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sport where it typically takes several years to reach a competitive level, Hong has made amazing progress since he started riding during his senior year at Gilman High School in Baltimore...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Shines in Newfound Passion | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...Rush—a visiting undergraduate from Toronto—and her Co-Captain Alana Biden '11 are actually starting a team at Harvard—years after students at Middlebury College pioneered the real-life adaptation of author J.K. Rowling's fictional sport from the Harry Potter series...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: So We Didn't Get Hermione...but We Still Got Quidditch? | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...else do you adapt a wizard sport for the Muggle world? Take the Snitch, who is actually "a guy running around all dressed in yellow." Tackle him, catch him, beat the sh*t out of him, and it is 150 points for your team and the end of the game...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: So We Didn't Get Hermione...but We Still Got Quidditch? | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

Update the river to the Charles and test whether sports fans can pronounce the word “destroyer” to rhyme with Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia, and we can brace ourselves for another regional clash of Biblical proportions—if we forget our heads and mistake sport for anything more than amusement. Bostonians and Harvard peers often forget civility and manners in their fanatical support for their own team...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Cutthroat Sports Culture | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...dealing with warfare here, or two cultures fighting for their survival. Taking a step back, it can be easy to forget that the fan wearing opposing colors takes a class with you or—gasp—even roots for the same team as you in a different sport. This playoff season, we must remember the ways we are not so different—not the sports-cap shibboleths that divide...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Cutthroat Sports Culture | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

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