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Assess your celebrity intelligence quotient with this week's fashion advisers, entrepreneurial sportsmen and fretful novelists...
...eyes-wide-open cynicism occasionally prevails. Of course players dived for penalties, the former England international footballer Ian Wright said recently. "So why don't we? It will happen to us again, so we should." Happily, this kind of attitude has a corrective. It can sometimes be found in sportsmen themselves, but is more reliably expressed by the people who watch sports or report and analyze them for public consumption. Significantly, when Henry performed his theatrical tumble in the World Cup second-round match against Spain, British TV commentators were outraged. Were France to score from the resultant free kick...
...years past, golfers, sailors, and other sportsmen found it expedient to sport collared shirts. Constantly exposed to rain and sun, the owners of these collars sometimes “popped” them for protection. Unbeknownst to many today, the popped collar originated with Rene Lacoste, who, in 1929, wore his newly-invented short-sleeve polo shirt with the collar popped to protect against the sun while playing tennis. With the rise of the unfriendly-to-popping, indoor leisure style of Ralph Lauren in the 1960s, collar poppers had their first natural enemies...
...Everyone around this team is somebody. "Do you think," I mused to a friend as the Sox bandwagon kept gaining steam through January and February, the SI Sportsmen of the Year Award in the satchel, Schilling on FOX every night giving opinions on every issue from the Republican Party's the way to go to why the Steelers should cream the Patriots in Pittsburgh. (Curt bugged me more than a time or two during the off-season.) "Do you think that we're turning into one of those national teams? Like the Cowboys or Lakers or Yankees? I wonder...
...beat the Ivy Leaguers at their own sport? Certainly it is not money, and surely it is not fame. Halberstam, who took the time to get to know the oarsmen in their boats and onshore, offers some provocative answers. They are not likely to make the sport or the sportsmen popular, but they provide valuable insights into the psychology of amateurs and of athletes in general...