Word: worlds
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...About a year ago I started hearing about how computers around the world were going to crash," Gonsalves says. "Now, with my computer science background, I thought, that is just plain wrong...
Make no mistake, Rivera's baseball potential is immense. He finished the 1999 championship season as the World Series MVP, and posted a 4-3 record with a 1.83 ERA and converted 45 of 49 save chances...
...Cashman's reaction was typical of the way sports people treat incursions by the real world into the sports community--an inevitable tendency to say that athletes' personal lives, or higher ideals, or commitments to virtues that aren't sports-related are forever more significant...
Commentators have been unanimous in their praise for Ainge's decision. That's not surprising, since sports media always react in like fashion when the relative significance of the sports world is called into question...
Ainge and Rivera can afford to quit because their beliefs lead them elsewhere, and the sports world fabricates a disingenuous belief in its own insignificance by praising them...