Word: sports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Basketball is a rock n' roll sport. It plays well to music. Football takes too long and baseball is too quiet...
...says that the show also provides these skaters an opportunity to experience, for a brief time, what college life is like. Several of the famous skaters are of college age but do not attend school because they devote all their time to the sport...
...forgone a college education. Both Kathaleen A. Kelly '89, the 1987 National Collegiate Women's Champion, and Wylie agree that although skating is important it should not prevent athletes from receiving an education. "People should be going to school," says Kelly. "They shouldn't be sacrificing everything for the sport because only one or two people can be that Olympic champion...
Meredith Rainey is another member of the track team who was not recruited. Rainey ran when she was younger but did not participate in track in high school. "I wanted to do an organized sport in college," Rainey says. "I never dreamed it would work out so well...
Right-wingers attacked Danie Craven, head of the Rugby Board, for meeting with A.N.C. leaders. State President P.W. Botha also denounced the get- together. Yet some government leaders were privately pleased that the A.N.C. had dropped an antiapartheid line that declared, "There can be no normal sport in an abnormal society." The A.N.C., for its part, demonstrated a willingness to bargain, undermining the government's contention that the group is dedicated only to violence...