Word: sportsmans
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...British experience concerns the frontier, where their Haileybury training did not come in handy. As Gilmour notes, “a raja and his court of noblemen were likely to be less impressed by a taciturn scholar from Oxford than by an ebullient officer who was, like them, a sportsman...
...basketball; in Palm Beach, Fla. The Wyoming-born "Cowboy," as he was known, gained renown over 15 years of calling games for the Boston Red Sox, initially incensing fans by mangling the names of players' New England hometowns. Over five decades he created a popular TV show (The American Sportsman) and called numerous Super Bowls...
...cable networks are battling over bass, with three of the industry's major players trolling for profits. In 2001 Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN acquired the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society, which holds tournaments around the country. This year ESPN will run 29 different fishing shows, including a four-hour Saturday-morning block. "Bass can be much bigger," says ESPN-ABC Sports president George Bodenheimer. "We're in this for the long haul...
...Since his international debut 12 years ago, McGrath has seldom fit the stereotype of the obsessive sportsman, let alone the boneheaded fast bowler. Raised on a sheep and wheat farm, a straight-A student through school in Narromine, in northwestern New South Wales, McGrath was set to become a carpenter until his talent for propelling a 5.5-ounce lump of cork, string and leather carried him to Sydney and beyond. As a cricketing tourist, he's shown an uncommon appreciation for the peculiar attractions of foreign lands; to his wife, Jane, he's the rock that's stood...
...across parts of the canals for the use of cattle and mule deer, and aqueduct sides were deliberately made rough to lend footing for smaller animals that might climb down for a drink. Human visitors are not welcome, but the outstretched ribbon of water has already inspired one desert sportsman to use the canal as a water...