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Mendelsohn, Mowery and Singer arrived at the Bush campaign office in Derry, a converted retail space that’s decorated with signs like “Sportsmen for Bush” and filled with volunteers calling state residents. The Derry office issued a voter list and the three students hit the road, canvassing mostly in Londonderry, a neighboring town...
...death penalty and abortion and trying to figure out what it will take to get them to vote. Catholics get regular emails telling them about the President's position on gay marriage or providing a Web page where they can see a picture of Bush with the Pope. Sportsmen are linked to a page that shows Bush with a shotgun...
...With some young players today, ego is the biggest problem," says Mark Carroll, a former Australian league player who coaches at Manly. "I pull them aside sometimes and say, 'Hey, you're a footballer. You cart around a lump of pigskin. You don't save lives.'" Sexual shenanigans by sportsmen are not, of course, confined to rugby league...
...Many sportsmen are egocentric and competitive "to the point of having borderline personality disorders," Bond says. Their competitiveness is partly why they're so good at their sport - and their coaches nurture it. But some players have trouble toning it down when the siren blows. Footballers want to make the most ferocious tackles, regardless of cost. Yet the same instinct can drive them to sink the most booze and seduce the most alluring women with similar disregard for consequences...
...movie industry's Super Bowl and America's favorite excuse for show-biz gambling. Oscar night, Feb. 29, is less than four weeks away, and inquiring sportsmen want to know...