Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sometimes, life can be a microcosm of sports, too. When a kid loses both parents, lives an adolescence defined by constant change, and uses his naivety to break down the barriers of segregation, we assign to him the most fundamental tenets of sport: winner, champion, victor...
...runs fast, jumps high, hits home runs and catches touchdowns. For them, it is sport as life...
...adults, he is something else: a uniter, someone who brings people together, someone who accepts people despite their flaws in order to accomplish a lofty goal in the face of long odds. For them, it is life as sport...
...guess that’s still sport as life, though. That’s certainly the case for Jeffrey, who never quite understood why a white kid catching passes from a black kid on the “black” side of town was such an extraordinary achievement. For him, it was the simple joy of being able to run, to compete and not to worry about anything else in the process...
...Sometimes, though, it’s even simpler than that. Sport is life in our basic joy—even if such an emotion is a violation of our ethics as journalists. I will never forget the moment, nearly four years ago, that crystallized this reality...