Word: warm-up
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...spends the day fishing from a canoe on the reservoir, the entire town of Hopkinton turns out for Race Day. Every able-bodied adult, it seems, directs traffic, cooks at one of the fast-food booths on the town green, or wears an official staff warm-up jacket and speaks into a walkie-talkie...
This conspiracy is so far-reaching that even the ballplayers are targets. They have warm-up rooms, video rooms, press rooms, locker rooms, training rooms, bed rooms. The clubhouses and training rooms are huge and plush, and the bullpens are wired for cable TV. All this extravagance can only hurt the quality of the game. What ballplayer will want to leave the warm waters of the clubhouse jacuzzi for the burning August...
...consider last night's contest a warm-up for the fireworks to come...
...fact, coaches are quick to cry foul when an opponent abandons the gentler Olympic style. After the Swedes were upset in a pre-Olympic warm-up against the Americans, the Swedish coaches branded the Americans hooligans. But Swedish center Bengt-Ake Gustafsson, a veteran of rough and tumble during nine seasons with the Washington Capitals, shrugged it off. "There was a lot of holding and pulling us down, that's all." Gratuitous violence of the kind that has turned N.H.L. hockey into a spectacle sport is the last thing American coach Dave Peterson wants to see, he claims...
...becoming a kind of ritual: warm-up, play, lose...