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Just the sound of St. Louis connotes better times, when the Cardinals were shared property of the Western states. And this autumn's monopoly especially brought back 1944, when the fall classic kept entirely to Sportsman's Park. Though the Cardinals won and the Browns lost as both were forever expected to do, the sweetest memory in St. Louis is of a series without boos...
...Brock the Jock, O’Tooley’s flamboyant football-playing roommate, demonstrated Lawler’s ability to poke fun at athletes. Luckily, the droll portrayal of a sportsman didn’t reduce the team’s enjoyment of the show...
...shop. Wrong: we do. As long as there's competition involved. Send us to Saks to buy socks, and we're bored. But let us shop at eBay, with the clock ticking down on an item we really don't need and may not even want, and our sportsman's juices surge: It's the two-minute warning at Super Bowl XXXVI. (New England Patriots 20, St. Louis Rams 17.) For guys at an online auction, it's not just the getting that counts, it's the crushing of another bidder's acquisitive spirit. In the final seconds...
Phelps may have entered Athens a phenom, but he left a sportsman. On day three of his golden quest, he chose to swim in the 200-m freestyle, knowing he was not favored. Racing stroke for stroke against Olympic champions Ian Thorpe of Australia and Pieter van den Hoogenband of the Netherlands, Phelps finished third, giving notice that he could compete with the best. "Racing the two greatest freestylers of all time in an Olympic final--it's fun," Phelps said after the race. "I had fun out there...
...discovering that while they understood themselves to be in Florida, they were actually 3,000 miles north, in Greenland. Governor Jeb Bush's sheepish response--that Florida is just about full up, and that the rerouted human overflow will find the icebound island to be a spectacular vacation and sportsman's paradise if people remember to dress properly--has so far failed to mollify the complainants. A group of elderly condominium buyers are filing a class action after the condos in their gated community of Icicle Mews blew away in a violent storm--along with the gate...