Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Eager to stop more teams quitting the sport, and keen to make races far more competitive, international motor-racing bosses have instituted a slew of changes to Formula One for the 2009 season. The overhaul, agreed to by the teams in December, is designed to cut costs in the fantastically expensive sport by at least 30%. The drivers and cars that pull away in the opening Grand Prix in Australia on March 29 will have to make do with fewer engines to get them through the season, cope with a lower limit on engine revs and learn how to handle...
...League in South Africa," says self-confessed cricket diehard Nikhil Lodaya, a Mumbai-based public relations executive, "It's just too desperate!" Lodaya says he planned to watch the matches on television, so it doesn't matter if the matches are played in Mumbai or London. "But for a sport I love, it's painful to see what has happened." (Read a TIME story on the worst sporting attacks...
...some also blame the ruling Congress Party for playing politics with sport. IPL chairman Lalit Modi is known to be close to the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Some BJP leaders have pointed out that states where the Congress or its allies are in power were the ones that denied security for IPL matches. "Cricket could have done without such politicization," says New Delhi-based cricket commentator G. Rajaraman, who holds Congress responsible. "Only Congress-ruled states said they could not provide security," he says, citing the examples of Delhi and Andhra Pradesh. "Only one match would be played...
...roadster into a street monster and track regular. Mustang had the name; but Camaro had the horses. Like many of Detroit's muscle cars, though, Camaro was doomed by paunchier styling and performance over the years, and the car's blue-collar fans drifted away to pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. Slow sales doomed...
...undergraduate women were asked to participate, individually, in a five-minute "speed date" session with a male student. Before her date, each woman was given either "simulation information" (a photograph of the man and a short personal profile that included his name, age, height, hometown and favorite movie, sport, book, song, food and college class) or "surrogation information" (another undergraduate woman's enjoyment rating, on a scale of 1 to 100, of a speed date with the same man). Based on either packet of info, each participant was asked to predict how much she would enjoy her own speed date...